Indulata Sukla

{{Short description|Indian mathematician (1944–2022)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Indulata Sukla

| image = Indulata Sukla.JPG

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|03|07|df=y}}

| birth_place = Baripada, Mayurbhanj State, British Raj (now Odisha)

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|6|30|1944|03|07|df=y}}

| nationality = Indian

| known_for = Number Theory, Cryptography, Analysis

| education = M.P.C. College, Baripada (B.Sc.)
Ravenshaw College, Cuttack (M.Sc.)
Jabalpur University, Jabalpur (Ph.D.)

| employer = Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha (Former Professor of Mathematics)

| occupation = Mathematician

| spouse = Ananta Charan Sukla{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}

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Indulata L. Sukla (7 March 1944 – 30 June 2022){{cite news |url=https://odishabytes.com/retd-sambalpur-university-math-prof-indulata-sukla-passes-away/ |title=Retd Sambalpur University Math Prof Indulata Sukla Passes Away |newspaper=odishabytes |date=1 July 2022 |access-date=1 July 2022}} was an Indian academic, who was professor of mathematics for more than three decades at Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha.

She did her schooling from Maharani Prem Kumari Girls’ School and B.Sc. with Mathematics Honours from M.P.C. College, Baripada. She completed her M.Sc. in Mathematics from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack in 1966, and had a brief stint as a lecturer in M.P.C. College,{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} before moving to the University of Jabalpur with a CSIR Fellowship to pursue Ph.D. under the supervision of Tribikram Pati. While pursuing her researches, she joined Sambalpur University in November 1970 as a lecturer in the School of Mathematical Sciences, and continued there till her retirement in March 2004.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}

She is the author of the textbook Number Theory and Its Applications to Cryptography (Cuttack: Kalyani Publishers, 2000).

In her research, she worked with English mathematician Brian Kuttner on Fourier Series.{{sfnp|Kuttner|Sukla|1985}}

She was a Life Member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Indian Mathematical Society (IMS).{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}