Professor Mushfequr Rahman, 1090, Burycove Lane, Lawrenceville, GA 30043, USA.
Biography
01/24/2001
BA (Math. 1942), Presidency College, Calcutta University; MA (First in the First Class, 1944), Dhaka University; Ph.D. (Geometry of Numbers), McGill University.
Theory of Numbers, Geometry, Analysis
Awarded government scholarship on the results of a competitive examination after grade 6, 1933. Awarded two gold medals and government scholarship on the results of school final examination, 1938; Awarded Colombo Plan Scholarship by the Government of Pakistan for advanced studies at McGill University, Canada, 1954; Awarded stipend by Canadian Mathematical Society for attending the Canadian Mathematical Congress at Winnipeg in the Summer of 1955.
Started career as a Lecturer in Mathematics (1944 - 1945); Ahsanulla School of Engineering, Dhaka College and Dhaka University; Organization and Methods Officer, Government of Bengal, India; Head of Department of Mathematics (1957 - 1958), Dhaka University; Associate Professor (1957 - 1958), Dhaka University; Provost, Dhaka Hall (1960 - 1967), Dhaka University; Associate Professor (1967 - 1973), Eastern Illinois University; Professor (1973 - 1993), Eastern Illinois University.
Text books: High School Algebra, High School Geometry, and High School Arithmetic, Published by Islamia Library, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1948 - 1950; On the Critical Determinant of an Unbounded Star Domain of Hexagonal Symmetry, Punjab University; Mathematics Journal of Pakistan, April 1967. On Certain N-Admissible Triangles in Symmetric Unbounded Star-Domains; The Mathematics Student, Vol. XLII, No.2, 1974, India. "A star whose irregular packing is denser than its lattice packing", J. Ramanujan Math. Soc. 5(1), 1990, pp. 77-85.
"Geometry of Numbers", University of British Columbia (1956); "The Density of N-Admissible Point Sets", Pakistan Science Conference, Lahore, Pakistan (1958); "Fermats Last Theorem", Dacca University (1960); "Geometry of Numbers", Notre Dame University (1963); "Some Unsolved Problems in Number Theory", Rajshahi University (1966); "The Queen; An Appreciation", Eastern Illinois University, Spring Conference (1968). "Domain of Action Method", American Mathematical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, (1972).
Fellowship 
