Ramaiyengar Sridharan | |
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![]() R. Sridharan in 1990 | |
Born | 1935 (age 88–89) |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
Awards | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | TIFR |
Doctoral advisor | Samuel Eilenberg |
Doctoral students | Raman Parimala |
Ramaiyengar Sridharan is a mathematician at Chennai Mathematical Institute, formerly at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).
He was born in Cuddalore in 1935. [1] He obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia under the guidance of Samuel Eilenberg with his thesis on filtered algebras and representations of Lie algebras in 1960. [2]
Sridharan was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB prize) in Mathematical Science in 1980. [1]
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