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Harish-Chandra Mehrotra FRS (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.
Harish-Chandra was born on 11 October, 1923 in Kanpur, an industrial town near Prayagraj (Allahabad) in Uttar Pradesh, India. He became one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century. Harish-Chandra died on 16 October, 1983, in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Harish-Chandra was an Indian-born mathematician and physicist who worked mainly in America and did fundamental work in representation theory, especially on Lie groups. View four larger pictures. Biography.
Professor Harish-Chandra began his work in the theory of elementary particles, but he turned in 1949 from physics to mathematics. His main interest was the study of infinite-dimensional representations.
Harish-Chandra – he spelt his name with a hyphen after a mistake by a copyeditor at the Proceedings of the Royal Society – was born in 1923 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was conspicuously precocious and successful in school, writes Roger Howe in a brief memoir about the mathematician published by the National Academy of Sciences, USA in 2011.
Jun 27, 2018 · Harish-Chandra was named the I.B.M.-von Neumann Professor of Mathematics at the institute in 1968. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1973 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States in 1981. He received honorary doctorates from Delhi University in 1973 and Yale University in 1981.
Harish-Chandra was born on 11 October, 1923 in Kanpur, an industrial town near Prayagraj (Allahabad) in Uttar Pradesh, India. He became one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century. Harish-Chandra died on 16 October, 1983, in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Harish-Chandra continued his studies in physics, first at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in Southern India under H.J. Bhabha, and later, at Cambridge in England under P.A.M.
He took the M.Sc. degree in 1943 at the age of nineteen in Allahabad and, as was natural for an ambitious young man of a theoretical bent in India at the time, when Raman’s fame and influence were strongly felt, he chose to study not mathematics but theoretical physics, moving to the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, where he met the ver...
Harish-Chandra was one of the outstanding mathematicians of his generation, an alge-braist and analyst, and one of those responsible for transforming infinite-dimensional group representation theory from a modest topic on the periphery of mathematics and physics into a major field central to contemporary mathematics. 1. Kanpur and Allahabad.
