Ramachandran Balasubramanian
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The President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presenting Padma Shri to Prof. Ramachandran Balasubramanian, Director of Institute of Mathematical Science, at investiture ceremony in New Delhi on March 29, 2006
Ramachandran Balasubramanian (born 15 March 1951) is an Indian mathematician and was Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai, India.[1] He is known for his work in number theory, which includes settling the final g(4) case of Waring's problem in 1986.[2][3]
His works on moments of Riemann zeta function is highly appreciated and he was a plenary speaker from India at ICM in 2010. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1980-81.[4]
Awards and honours[]
He has received the following awards:
- The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 1990...
- The French government's Ordre National du Mérite for "furthering Indo-French cooperation in the field of mathematics" in 2003.[5]
- The Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, in 2006.[6]
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012.[7]
- The Lifetime Achievement Award, 2013 awarded by Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India.[8]
- Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (1988)[9]
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 March 2009. Retrieved 7 February 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Balasubramanian, Ramachandran; Deshouillers, Jean-Marc; Dress, François, Problème de Waring pour les bicarrés. I. Schéma de la solution. (French. English summary) [Waring's problem for biquadrates. I. Sketch of the solution] Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série I 303 (1986), no. 4, pp. 85-88
- ^ Balasubramanian, Ramachandran; Deshouillers, Jean-Marc; Dress, François, Problème de Waring pour les bicarrés. II. Résultats auxiliaires pour le théorème asymptotique. (French. English summary) [Waring's problem for biquadrates. II. Auxiliary results for the asymptotic theorem] Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série I 303 (1986), no. 5, pp. 161-163
- ^ "Community of Scholars Profile: Balasubramanian, R." Institute for Advanced Study. Archived from the original on 25 November 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
- ^ "French honour mathematician Balasubramanian". The Times Of India. 5 February 2003.
- ^ "India at a Glance". india.gov.in. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-03.
- ^ "PM honours 4 N-scientists with lifetime achievement awards". rediff.com. 15 January 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ^ "Indian Fellow". INSA. 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
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Categories:
- 20th-century Indian mathematicians
- Recipients of the Padma Shri in science & engineering
- Living people
- Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research alumni
- Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
- 1951 births
- Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science