Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak (10 June 1938 – 12 February 2009) was a mathematician whose research concerned balanced incomplete block designs, bivariegated graphs, graceful graphs, graph equations and frequency partitions. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai in 1970 with the dissertation Some New Results in PBIBD Designs and Combinatorics. S. S. Shrikhande was her advisor.[1]

Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak
Born10 June 1938 in India
Died12 February 2009 (aged 70 years) in Chembur, Mumbai
Education1970 Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai
OccupationMathematician


After completing her doctorate, she remained on the faculty at the university, and eventually served as department head.[2] She had 44 publications in the field of Combinatorics.[3]

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  1. ^ Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Rao, Nithyanand (12 November 2017), "Celebrating Sharadchandra Shrikhande, the Mathematician Who Disproved Euler", The Wire
  3. ^ "American Mathematical Society". Retrieved 16 February 2024.