An Introduction to Ultrametric Summability Theory

Pinnangudi Narayanasubramanian Natarajan is former professor and head, Department of Mathematics, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, Chennai. He did his PhD from the University of Madras, under Prof. M.S. Rangachari, former director and head, The Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, University of Madras. An active researcher, Prof. Natarajan has over 90 research papers to his credit published in several international journals like Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, Indagationes Mathematicae, Annales Mathematiques Blaise Pascal, Commentationes Mathematicae (Prace Matematyczne). His research interest includes summability theory and functional analysis (both classical and ultrametric). Prof. Natarajan was honored with Dr. Radhakrishnan Award for the Best Teacher in Mathematics for the year 1990-91 by the Government of Tamil Nadu. Besides visiting several institutes of repute in Canada, France, Holland, and Greece on invitation, Prof. Natarajan has participated in several international conferences and chaired sessions, too.

Preface.- Introduction and Preliminaries.- Some Arithmetic and Analysis in Qp : Derivatives in Ultrametric Analysis.- Ultrametric Functional Analysis.- Ultrametric Summability Theory.- References.- Index.