KP Basu's house
Jagadik Mathematician Professor Kalipada Basu constructed a palatial double-decker building in 177-square-kilometer area on the bank of the river Nabaganga in Harishankarpur village under Jhenaidah Sadar upazila of his hometown. The house is still habitable and can be said very well.
Kalipada Basu (K., P. Basu) (1865-1914)
Professor Kalipada Basu (K. P. Basu), a famous mathematician of Bengal, got himself admitted in Harishankarpur village of Jhenaidah Sadar upazila in 1865. His father Mahima Charan Basu K. P. Basu's education started as a career in his village teacher, meritorious teacher Nachimuddin Mandal. K. P. Basu's role in the creation of mathematism was immense. He joined the Dhaka College as a mathematical teacher in 1892. And he was working as Professor of that college since death. K. P. Basu married Meghmala Ghosh of Swamgarh. The great mathematician in his personal life was very kinda, agreeable and extraordinary.
In his teaching life, he did not restrict his activities within the lesson. In 1882 the Hunter Commission's proposed European edition made the study and practice of Modern Elbabrite easy, lively and easy. By inventing numerous new numbers, he has developed and excelled in the history of this scripture. With the misappropriation he continued his research on Alzabra and Geometry. In his earnest pursuance, "Elzabra Made Easy", "Modern Geometry", "Intermediate Solid Geometry" was published, and his attention was drawn towards the publishing industry, and he established KPP Basu Publishing Company in Calcutta.
Being mercurial, diligent, and industrious, he became the owner of wealth and wealth. In 1907 he built a palatial building in his village. In 1914, he died in Pannis Malaria fever in Dhaka. All the offices of Jhenaidah were closed when his body reached Jhenaidah. Hundreds of thousands of mourned people were present on the banks of the Nabaganga river to pay their last respects. A road named after him in Jhenaidah
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