Introduction to Social Demography

Professor G. S. Pandey completed M.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Sagaur in 1960, securing second position in merit list. He obtained Ph.D and . Sc degrees in 1963 and 1968 respectively for his research work on “Summability of special Orthogonal Expansions”. Professor Pandey has been a Visiting Scholar at mathematical Institute of Hungarian Academy of Science (Budapest), Fulbright Fellow (Chicago, USA) and Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla for three years. He worked for 15 years as Head, School of Studies in Mathematics, Vikram University. He was the president of Indian Society for history of Mathematics for six years. He has published64 research papers in reputed foreign and Indian journals, five books and a novel about the life and work of Acarya Varahmihira (published by Bhartiya Jnanpeeth, New Delhi, 2009). Fourteen students have obtained Ph. D under his supervision. He worked as Editor, Vikram Mathematical Journal for 10 years and was reviewer for Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (Berlin) for 20 years. Presently, Professor Pandey is engaged in research work on Approximation Theory, generalized Functions, Macroeconomic Anallysis and history of Mathematics.