Komaravolu Chandrasekharan
Born(1920-11-21)21 November 1920
Bapatla, Guntur District, Madras Presidency, British India (now Andhra Pradesh, India)
Died13 April 2017(2017-04-13) (aged 96)
Zürich, Switzerland
CitizenshipIndian
Alma materMadras University
OccupationMathematician
Known forAdministrative intellect, Mathematics, Analytic Number Theory and Mathematical Analysis
AwardsSrinivasa Ramanujan Medal (1966), Padma Shri (1959), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Mathematical Sciences (1963)
Scientific career
FieldsNumber theory
InstitutionsTIFR, ETH Zurich
Doctoral advisorK. Ananda Rau
Doctoral studentsC. S. Seshadri
M. S. Narasimhan

Komaravolu Chandrasekharan (21 November 1920 – 13 April 2017)[1] was a professor at ETH Zurich[2] and a founding faculty member of School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). He is known for his work in number theory and summability. He received the Padma Shri, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, and the Ramanujan Medal, and he was an honorary fellow of TIFR. He was president of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) from 1971 to 1974.

Biography

Chandrasekharan was born on 21 November 1920 in Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Chandrasekharan completed his high school from Bapatla village in Guntur from Andhra Pradesh. He completed M.A. in mathematics from the Presidency College, Chennai and a PhD from the Department of Mathematics, University of Madras in 1942, under the supervision of K. Ananda Rau.[1]

When Chandrasekharan was with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, US, Homi Bhabha invited Chandrashekharan to join the School of Mathematics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Chandrashekharan persuaded mathematicians L. Schwarz, C. L. Siegel and others from all over the world to visit TIFR and deliver lectures. In 1965, Chandrasekharan left the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research to join the ETH Zurich,[1] where he retired in 1988.[3][4]

He was a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

Selected works

Notes

  1. ^ a b c "Some Famous Indian Scientists" (PDF). Mumbai, India: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Science Popularisation and Public Outreach Committee. 14 November 2004. p. 12. Retrieved 26 May 2009.
  2. ^ Komaravolu Chandrashekharan
  3. ^ "Department of Mathematics Retired Faculty". Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. 4 February 2005. Retrieved 26 May 2009.
  4. ^ "ETHistory Selbstständige Professuren" (in German). Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. 2005. Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2009.
  5. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 10 November 2012.
  6. ^ Segal, I. E. (1950). "Review: Fourier transforms, by S. Bochner and K. Chandrasekharan" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 56 (6): 526–528. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1950-09436-1.
  7. ^ Kuttner, B. (1954). "Review: Typical means, by K. Chandrasekharan and S. Minakshisundaram" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 60 (1): 85–88. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1954-09760-4.
  8. ^ a b Stark, H. M. (1971). "Review: Introduction to analytic number theory, by K. Chandrasekharan; Arithmetical functions, by K. Chandrasekharan; Multiplicative number theory, by Harold Davenport; Sequences, by H. Halberstam and K. F. Roth" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (6): 943–957. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1971-12812-4.

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