Background
Udita Narayana Singh was born on 19 November 1920 at the home of his maternal grandmother in the district of Benares (now Varanasi). His father, Shri Mahavir Singh, was a landlord.
Udita Narayana Singh was born on 19 November 1920 at the home of his maternal grandmother in the district of Benares (now Varanasi). His father, Shri Mahavir Singh, was a landlord.
Udita Narayana Singh attended schools in Benares. After graduating he studied at Queens College, Benares. He graduated from Queens College, Benares in 1939 with the Gold Medal and entered the University of Allahabad.
Udita Narayana Singh was awarded his D.Phil. in 1949 for his thesis Strong Summability of Trigonometric Series. In 1954 he was awarded a Doctor of Science for his thesis Transformée de Fourier Généralisée et les Problèmes qui s'y Rattachent.
Returning to India he taught at Allahabad for a while before moving to the Aligarh Muslim University as a Reader in Mathematics. He continued to imporove his status and was appointed to the Maharaja Sayaji Rao University of Baroda as the first Professor and Head of the Mathematics Department in 1958.
Singh spent one academic year (1963-1964) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1969, Singh was invited to join the University of Delhi as Professor of Pure Mathematics and he was pleased to accept. In 1970 be became Head of the Department of Mathematics as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics. In 1974 he was appointed the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi but in 1980 he accepted the offer of Vice Chancellorship of the University of Allahabad.
Udita Narayana Singh had been a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of India. He had been the President of the Allahabad Mathematical Society, of the Society of Mathematical Sciences of Delhi, of the Indian Society for the History of Mathematics, of the Section of Mathematics of the Indian Science Congress and of the Gujarat Ganit Mandal.
He had also presided over a session of the International Congress on Mathematical Education at Berkeley, California U.S.A. in 1980 and over a session of an International Symposium on Non-Linear Analysis at St John's, Newfoundland, Canada in 1981.
Udita Narayana Singh had also delivered the annual convocation address at the Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi in 1981 and at the Sir Ganganatb Jha Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth at Allahabad in 1982. He had also been the chairman of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award Committee in 1981.
In 1937 he married Kamala Devi, they had four children, two sons and two daughters.