Search results
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.
Oct 11, 2011 · 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.
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.
Harishchandra ( Sanskrit: हरिश्चन्द्र, romanized : Hariścandra) is a legendary king of the Solar dynasty, who appears in several legends in texts such as the Aitareya Brahmana, Mahabharata, the Markandeya Purana, and the Devi Bhagavata Purana. The most famous of these stories is the one mentioned in the Markandeya Purana.
The Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) is a premier institution dedicated to research in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. The areas of focus in Mathematics are Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, and Number Theory.
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.
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.
Harish-chandra was one of the outstanding mathematicians of his generation, an algebraist 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.
