Harish-Chandra

Harish-Chandra Mehrotra
Born(1923-10-11)11 October 1923
Died16 October 1983(1983-10-16) (aged 60)
CitizenshipUnited States[2]
Alma materUniversity of Allahabad
University of Cambridge
Known for
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society[1]
Cole Prize in Algebra (1954)
Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Physics
Institutions

Harish-Chandra Mehrotra FRS[1][3] (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an Indian-American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ a b Langlands, Robert P. (1985). "Harish-Chandra. 11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the 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 978-3-319-10870-4.
  4. ^ Harish-Chandra at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Harish-Chandra", MacTutor History of Mathematics 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.

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