Sarvadaman D. S. Chowla (22 October 1907 – 10 December 1995) was an Indian American mathematician, specializing in number theory.
He was born in London, since his father, Gopal Chowla, a professor of mathematics in Lahore, was then studying in Cambridge.
[1][2] His family returned to India, where he received his master's degree in 1928 from the Government College in Lahore.
[3]: 594 Chowla then returned to India, where he taught at several universities, becoming head of mathematics at Government College, Lahore in 1936.
[3]: 594 He moved to Penn State in 1963 as a research professor, where he remained until his retirement in 1976.