Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya was born at
Haripal,
Hooghly district, in
Bengal Presidency,
British India. He graduated from
Hooghly College, received his M.A. degree from
Presidency College in
Calcutta, and his Ph.D. degree from
Calcutta University in 1910. He also took classes from the
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. Mukhopadhyaya was appointed by
Asutosh Mookerjee as professor of mathematics in the
Rajabazar Science College,
University of Calcutta.
Jacques Hadamard communicated with Mukhopadyaya about the latter's work on the geometry of a plane arc and
Wilhelm Blaschke's book on geometry had a reference to Mukhopadhyaya. He worked at
Bangabasi College and then at
Bethune College in Calcutta, where he lectured in
Mathematics,
English Literature, and
Philosophy. In 1932, he was elected president of the
Calcutta Mathematical Society. He served in this capacity until his death from
heart failure in 1937. Mukhopadhyaya went to Europe on a Ghose Travelling Fellowship in 1933 to study methods of education. He gave lectures in Paris University. ==References==