Indian Mathematics Day in Croatia 2024

Author: Nenad N. Bach and Darko ubrini

Mrs. Pallavi Kararha of the Embassy of the Republic of India in Zagreb, addressing to the audience

Professor Mirko Planini, the Dean of the Faculty of Science (of which the Department of Mathematics is a part), addressing to the audience

Mrs. Pallavi Kararha, with Professor Mirko Planini

Professor Vesna upanovi, president of the Croatian Mathematical Society,

addressing to the audience.

Professor Vesna upanovi donated a copy of the monograph Number Theory, published in Zagreb in 2023,

written by Andrej Dujella (a Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts), to Mrs. Pallavi Kararha.

On the right, Professor Luka Grubii, Head of the Department of Mathematics.

Fourth Indian Mathematics Day in Croatia, 2024

About 40 mathematicians plus several guests have participated at the meeting honoring the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the greatest Indian mathematician in history. This yearly event, already fourth in order, was organized at the Mathematics Department of the Faculty of Science of the University of Zagreb. The principal sponsors were the Embassy of India, the mentioned Math Department, along with the Croatian Mathematical Society, and the Croatian-Indian Society.

Three short, but very interesting 15 min lectures were delivered by distinguished Croatian experts Professors Andrej Dujella, Zvonimir iki, and Mirko Primc, with the respective titles as follows:

Croatian and Indian collaborations and contributions to Diophantine m-tuples
Long proofs of short theorems
New Rogers-Ramanujan type identities

The meeting was greeted by representatives of the organizers of the event:

Professor Luka Grubii, in the name of the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Science of the University of Zagreb
Professor Mirko Planini, the Dean of the Faculty of Science
Mrs. Pallavi Kararha, in the name of the Embassy of the Republic of India in Zagreb
Mr. Joginder Singh Nijjar, the president of the Croatian-Indian Society, and D. ubrini, its vicepresident.

The first two celebrations of the Indian National Mathematics Day (marking the birthday of Srinivasa Ramanujan, 22nd December), organized at the Napredak Cultural Centre in Zagreb, are described here:

The third celebration was organized in December 2023 at the Mathematics Department of the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, where besides H. E. Raj Kumar Srivastava (who initiated these events in Zagreb), also Professors Hrvoje iki and Zoran Vondraek participated with their lectures.

On the right, Mr. Joginder Singh Nijjar, president of the Croatian-Indian Society in Zagreb,

who also obtained as a gift another monograph by Andrej Dujella: Diophantine m-tuples and Elliptic Curves,

published by Springer in 2024. In the second row, the first three persons from the right are

Professors Vesna upanovi, Mirko Planini, and Andrej Dujella, a Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) on the left, the greatest Indian mathematician in history.
Many thanks to Dr. Tvrtko Tadi for his kind help in creating this poster.

Professor Andrej Dujella, delivering his very condensed, 15-min lecture, about his ongoing work.

In the first row from the left: Professors Vladimir Volenec, Dragutin Svrtan, Zvonimir iki, Mirko Primc, Mrs. Pallavi Kararha, and Joginder Singh Nijjar.