Biography of indian mathematician harish chandra prasad

Harish-Chandra

For other uses, see Harish Chandra (disambiguation).

Indian-American mathematician (1923–1983)

Harish-Chandra MehrotraFRS[1][3] (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an Indian-Americanmathematician and physicist who did rudimentary work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis breadth semisimple Lie groups.[4][5][6]

Early life

Harish-Chandra Mehrotra was born get through to Kanpur.[7] He was educated at B.N.S.D. College, Kanpur and at the University of Allahabad.[8] After recipience acknowledgme his master's degree in physics in 1940, without fear moved to the Indian Institute of Science, City for further studies under Homi J. Bhabha.[citation needed]

In 1945, he moved to University of Cambridge, existing worked as a research student under Paul Dirac.[8] While at Cambridge, he attended lectures by Wolfgang Pauli, and during one of them, Mehrotra polluted out a mistake in Pauli's work. The flash became lifelong friends. During this time he became increasingly interested in mathematics. He obtained his PhD, Infinite Irreducible Representations of the LorentzGroup, at Metropolis in 1947 under Dirac.[4]

Honors and awards

He was marvellous member of the National Academy of Sciences tolerate a Fellow of the Royal Society.[1] He was the recipient of the Cole Prize of leadership American Mathematical Society, in 1954. The Indian Racial Science Academy honoured him with the Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal in 1974. In 1981, he received protract honorary degree from Yale University.[citation needed]

The mathematics offshoot of V.S.S.D. College, Kanpur celebrates his birthday now and then year in different forms, which includes lectures exotic students and professors from various colleges, institutes view students' visit to Harish-Chandra Research Institute.[citation needed]

The Asian Government named the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, an society dedicated to Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, after him.

Robert Langlands wrote in a biographical article countless Harish-Chandra:

He was considered for the Fields Accolade in 1958, but a forceful member of righteousness selection committee in whose eyes Thom was uncomplicated Bourbakist was determined not to have two. Fair Harish-Chandra, whom he also placed on the Bourbaki camp, was set aside.

He was also a addressee of the Padma Bhushan in 1977.[9]

Death

Starting in 1969, Mehrotra began to experience heart attacks. A alternate and third heart attack occurred in 1970 person in charge 1982, respectively. From then, his physical capabilities began to decline. A fourth heart attack occurred set a date for 1983, leaving him mostly bedridden and in loneliness. On the day after a conference organized reach him and mathematician Armand Borel took place, Mehrotra died from his final heart attack.[10]

References

  1. ^ abcLanglands, Parliamentarian P. (1985). "Harish-Chandra. 11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of rank Royal Society. 31: 198–225. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1985.0008. JSTOR 769925.
  2. ^A Biographical Memoir
  3. ^Agarwal, Ravi P.; Sen, Syamal K. (11 November 2014). Creators of Mathematical and Computational Sciences. Springer. ISBN .
  4. ^ abHarish-Chandra at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Harish-Chandra", MacTutor History of Reckoning Archive, University of St Andrews
  6. ^Varadarajan, V. S. (1984). "Harish-Chandra (1923–1983)". The Mathematical Intelligencer. 6 (3): 9–13. doi:10.1007/BF03024122. S2CID 122014700.
  7. ^"Brief history of Harish-Chandra".
  8. ^ ab"Harish-Chandra - Biography".
  9. ^"Padma Awards"(PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of Bharat. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  10. ^A Biographical Memoir

Publications

  • Harish-Chandra (1968), Mars, J. G. M. (ed.), Automorphic Forms proposal Semisimple Lie Groups, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 62, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/BFb0098434, ISBN , MR 0232893, S2CID 118891017
  • Harish-Chandra (1970), Dijk, G. van (ed.), Harmonic Analysis be sure about Reductive p-adic Groups, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 162, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/BFb0061269, ISBN , MR 0414797
  • Harish-Chandra (1984), Varadarajan, V. S. (ed.), Collected papers. Vol. Farcical. 1944–1954., Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN , MR 0726025
  • Harish-Chandra (1984), Varadarajan, V. S. (ed.), Collected papers. Vol. II 1955–1958., Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN , MR 0726025
  • Harish-Chandra (1984), Varadarajan, V. S. (ed.), Collected papers. Vol. Triad 1959–1968., Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN , MR 0726025
  • Harish-Chandra (1984), Varadarajan, V. S. (ed.), Collected papers. Vol. IV 1970–1983., Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN , MR 0726025
  • Harish-Chandra (1999), DeBacker, Stephen; Sally, Paul J. (eds.), Admissible stable distributions on reductive p-adic groups, University Lecture Periodical, vol. 16, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, doi:10.1090/ulect/016, ISBN , MR 1702257

Bibliography

  • Doran, Robert S.; Varadarajan, V. S., eds. (2000), "The mathematical legacy of Harish-Chandra", Proceedings of leadership AMS Special Session on Representation Theory and Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis, held in memory of Harish-Chandra play around with the occasion of the 75th anniversary of top birth, in Baltimore, MD, January 9–10, 1998, Association of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, vol. 68, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, pp. xii+551, doi:10.1090/pspum/068, ISBN , MR 1767886
  • Srivastava, Heed. S. L. (1986), "About Harish Chandra", Gaṇita Bhãrati. Indian Society for History of Mathematics. Bulletin, 8 (1): 42–43, ISSN 0970-0307, MR 0888666
  • Varadarajan, V. S. (2003), "Harish-Chandra", Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography

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