M. Ram Murty

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M. Ram Murty
Born (1953-10-16) 16 October 1953 (age 69)
NationalityCanadian
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards Coxeter–James Prize (1988)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions McGill University
Queen's University
Doctoral advisor Harold Stark
Dorian M. Goldfeld
Doctoral students

Maruti Ram Pedaprolu Murty, FRSC (born 16 October 1953) [1] is an Indo-Canadian mathematician at Queen's University, where he holds a Queen's Research Chair [2] in mathematics.

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Biography

M. Ram Murty is the brother of mathematician V. Kumar Murty. [3]

Murty graduated with a B.Sc. from Carleton University in 1976. [4] He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supervised by Harold Stark and Dorian Goldfeld. [5] He was on the faculty of McGill University from 1982 until 1996, when he joined Queen's University. Murty is also cross-appointed as a professor of philosophy at Queen's, specialising in Indian philosophy. [6]

Research

Specializing in number theory, Murty is a researcher in the areas of modular forms, elliptic curves, and sieve theory.

Murty has Erdős number 1 and frequently collaborates with his brother, V. Kumar Murty.

Awards

Murty received the Coxeter–James Prize in 1988. [7] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1990, [8] was elected to the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 2008, [9] and became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012. [10]

Selected publications

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References

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  4. Murty, M. Ram (2 June 2017). "How I Discovered Euclidean Proofs" (PDF). Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  5. M. Ram Murty at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  11. Thorne, Frank (2012). "Book Review: An introduction to sieve methods and their applications by Alina Carmen Cojocaru and M. Ram Murty and Opera de cribro by John Friedlander and Henryk Iwaniec". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 50 (2): 359–366. doi: 10.1090/S0273-0979-2012-01390-3 . ISSN   0273-0979.