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K. S. Chandrasekharan

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.

Komaravolu Chandrasekharan

13 April 2017(2017-04-13) (aged 96)

Indian

Mathematician

Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal (1966), Padma Shri (1959), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Mathematical Sciences (1963)

Biography[edit]

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]

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Salomon Bochner

with S. Minakshisundaram: . Oxford University Press. 1952. LCCN 53002509.[7]

Typical means

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Introduction to analytic number theory

Arithmetical Functions. Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften. Springer. 1970.  49010722.[8]

LCCN

. Springer. 1985. ISBN 9780387152950. LCCN 85009802.

Elliptic Functions

Classical Fourier transforms. Springer-Verlag. 1989.  0387502483. LCCN 88038192.[10]

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Course on topological groups. Hindustan Book Agency. 2011.  9789380250205.[11]

ISBN

Course on integration theory. Hindustan Book Agency. 2011.  9789380250199. LCCN 2012472670.[12]

ISBN

– India's who is who

at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

K. S. Chandrasekharan

in Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (German)

Komaravolu Chandrasekharan