Professor Dr. Uday Chand De, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Professor Dr. Uday Chand De, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Emeritus Professor
Department of Pure Mathematics
Calcutta University

„ I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have“– Professor De has been proving this throughout his life. Coming off a village, named Shambhu Pur in the district of Burdwan, West Bengal, Prof. De has completed his spring time of life in this village. After that he has completed his B.Sc.(Hons.)in Mathematics from Calcutta University. He has also got his M.Sc.degree from Calcutta University. After successful completion of M.Sc., he has joined as a UGC research scholar in the Department of Pure Mathematics in Calcutta University under the supervision of Prof M.C.Chaki, Sir Ashutosh Birth Centenary Professor of Higher Mathematics. After two years of his rewarding research work he has joined as a Lecturer in the department of Mathematics, University Of Kalyani in 1980. In the year 1986, Prof. De was prosperously promoted to the post of Reader. He has become a Professor in 1998. He has been awarded Ph.D in 1986. In 2009 he has obtained D.Sc. degree from Lucknow University and joined as UGC Professor in the department of Pure Mathematics, Calcutta University.

He has published more than 400 research papers on his credit and produced 31 Ph.D students. In 2016 Prof De has become an Emeritus Professor in the Dept. of Pure Mathematics, Calcutta University. He is the first Emeritus Professor in the Dept. of Pure Mathematics since the Department established. He has written 5 text books for undergraduate and postgraduate level, two of them have been published by Alpha Science Publisher, UK. Also he is a coauthor of the book „ A New Riemannian Geometry in 21st century“ published by Research Institute of Real and Complex manifold, South Korea. He is a fellow of the International Academy of physical Sciences, Allahabad and West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology.

Recently, he became an international member of Serbian Academy of Sciences. Prof. De has done his research work with more than 50 collaborators in India and abroad.

He is in the Editorial Board of several  Indian and foreign Math. Journals such as Kyungpook Math. Journal, Korea; International Electronic Journal of Geometry, Turkey; Bull.of Math. Analysis, Kosova; Facta Universities and Informatics, Serbia and many others.