Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak (10 June 1938 – 12 February 2009) was a

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

whose research concerned balanced incomplete block designs, bivariegated graphs, graceful graphs, graph equations and

frequency partition In graph theory, a discipline within mathematics, the frequency partition of a graph (simple graph) is a partition of its vertices grouped by their degree. For example, the degree sequence of the left-hand graph below is (3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1) and its ...

s. She earned a Ph.D. from the

University of Mumbai University of Mumbai is a public state university in Mumbai. It is one of the largest university systems in the world with over 549,000 students on its campuses and affiliated colleges. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges. It was est ...

in 1970 with the dissertation ''Some New Results in PBIBD Designs and Combinatorics''. S. S. Shrikhande was her advisor. After completing her doctorate, she remained on the faculty at the university, and eventually served as department head. She had 44 publications in the field of

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