Dattatreya Ramchandra Kaprekar

(1905-1986)
Indian Recreational Mathematician

 Birth --- Maharashtra --- Dahanu --- Palghar District --- Near Mumbai
 His mother JanakiBai died when he was 8 years old
 He was grown up by his father Ramchandra.
 His father Ramchandra was a clerk in a Revenue office and also an
Astrologer
 So his father taught him both Mathematics and Astrology at his childhood.
 Kaprekar became acquainted with the world of numbers from childhood
itself.
 He was so fascinated with the numbers that most of time he began to play
with them. (Solving Puzzels, tough questions…..)
 School education --- Thane
 His classmets often laughed
 Fergusson college --- Pune
 University of Mumbai --- Recived batchelors degree in the year 1929 (24)
 School Teacher at Nashik (1930 - 1962) (25-57 = 32)
 Working largely alone, Kaprekar discovered a number of results in number
theory and described various properties of numbers.
 Discoveries
1) Kaprekar constant
2) Kaprekar numbers
3) Self Numbers (or) Devlalai numbers
4) Harshad numbers
5) Demlo numbers

 Initially his ideas were not taken seriously by Indian mathematicians, and
his results were published largely in low-level mathematics journals or
 privately published, but international fame arrived when Martin Gardner
wrote about Kaprekar in his March 1975 column of Mathematical
Games for Scientific American.
 Today his name is well-known and many other mathematicians have
pursued the study of the properties he discovered.