16 Facts About Rudranath Capildeo

Rudranath Capildeo was a member of the prominent Hindu Indo-Trinidadian Capildeo family.

Rudranath Capildeo was a faculty member at the University of London, eventually holding the position of Reader of Mathematics.

Rudranath Capildeo was awarded the Trinity Cross, the nation's highest award, in 1969.

Rudranath Capildeo was born on 2 February 1920 into a Brahmin Hindu Indo-Trinidadian family at Anand Bhavan on the Main Road in the city of Chaguanas in Caroni County in the then British-ruled Trinidad and Tobago.

Rudranath Capildeo's father was Pundit Capil Deo Dubey, an indentured laborer who emigrated from Mahadeva Dubey Village, Gorakhpur district, North-Western Provinces, British India in 1894, and his mother was Soogee Capildeo.

Rudranath Capildeo was the youngest child of the prominent Rudranath Capildeo family.

Rudranath Capildeo was educated at Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain where he won an island scholarship in 1938.

Rudranath Capildeo attended the University of London where he obtained his BSc in Mathematics and Physics in 1943, his MSc in Mathematics in 1945, and his PhD in Mathematical Physics in 1948, his thesis being entitled "The flexure problem in elasticity".

Rudranath Capildeo held lectureships at the University of London, including at both University College London and at Westfield College.

Rudranath Capildeo taught briefly at Queen's Royal College and was Principal of the Polytechnic Institute in Port of Spain in 1959.

Rudranath Capildeo was committed to understanding the nature of space and time, and this sparked his interest in understanding Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity.

Not only did Rudranath Capildeo produce many significant mathematical theories and a book on Vector Algebra and Mechanics in 1967, he studied law in London in 1956.

Rudranath Capildeo was responsible for having the freedom of worship included in the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago and Service Commissions because he felt that service commissions would ensure equality and fairness in the appointment of people to public office.

The Rudranath Capildeo Learning Resource Centre is located in McBean Village, Couva, Trinidad.

Rudranath Capildeo was married to Ruth Goodchild in 1944 and they had one son named Rudy Capildeo.

Rudranath Capildeo has a daughter, Anne Saraswati Gasteen Capildeo, born was in 1959.