Mathukumalli (Matukumalli) Venkata Subbarao (May 4, 1921 – February 15, 2006) was an Indo-Canadian mathematician, specialising in number theory.
Subbarao was born in the small village of Yazali, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
[1] In the 1960s Subbarao began to study the congruence properties of the partition function, p(n), which became one of his favourite problems.
[4] A more general variant of the conjecture was formulated by Morris Newman[5] predicting that for any given r and m, there are infinitely many n such that p(n)= r(mod m).
Thus, Subbarao's conjectures, though seemingly simple, will generate fundamental research activity for years to come.