Indulata Sukla

Background

She was born in Baripada. Her father, Pandit Kashinath Kar Mohapatra, was the royal priest of the erstwhile king of the princely state of Mayurbhanj.

Education

She completed her Master of Science

Career

She did her schooling from Maharani Prem Kumari Girls’ School and Bachelor of Science with Mathematics Honours from M.P.C. College, Baripada. in Mathematics from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack in 1966, and had a brief stint as a Lecturer in M.P.C. College, before moving to the University of Jabalpur with a Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Fellowship to pursue Doctor of Philosophy under the supervision of Tribikram Pati. While pursuing her researches, she joined Sambalpur University in November 1970 as a Lecturer in the School of Mathematical Sciences, and continued there till her retirement in March 2004. She is the author of the textbook Number Theory and Its Applications to Cryptography (Cuttack: Kalyani Publishers, 2000).

In her research, she worked with English mathematician Brian Kuttner on Fourier Series.

She has presented papers at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto, Japan (1990), Zurich, Switzerland (1994), Beijing, China (2002) and Hyderabad, India (2014).

Achievements

• The Orissa Mathematical Society (OMS) gave her the Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in Number Theory, Cryptography and Analysis. She received the award from Professor Ramachandran Balasubramanian, Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai at the 42nd Annual Conference of OMS held at Vyasanagar Autonomous College, Jajpur Road, Orissa on February 7, 2015.

Membership

She is a Life Member of the American Mathematical Society (American Mathematical Society) and the Indian Mathematical Society (IP Multimedia Subsystem).