Mathematician:Dattathreya Ramchandra Kaprekar
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Mathematician
Indian recreational mathematician who described several classes of natural numbers including the Kaprekar, Harshad and Self numbers and discovered the Kaprekar constant, named after him.
Nationality
Indian
History
- Born: 17 January 1905 in Dahanu, Maharashtra
- Died: 1986 in Devlali, Maharashtra
Theorems and Definitions
- Kaprekar Number
- Kaprekar Triples
- Kaprekar Mapping
- Kaprekar's Process
- Kaprekar's Constant
- Kaprekar's Symmetry
Results named for Dattathreya Ramchandra Kaprekar can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Dattathreya Ramchandra Kaprekar can be found here.
Publications
- 1949: Another Solitaire Game (Scripta Math. Vol. 15: pp. 244 – 245)
- 1955: An Interesting Property of the Number $6174$ (Scripta Math. Vol. 21: p. 304)
Also known as
Different transliterations of his name can be found, for example:
- Dattaraya or Dattatreya
- Ramachandra