Ramaswamy Ranga Rao

Ramaswamy Ranga Rao (1935 - 27 August 2021 ^[1] ) was a prominent Indian mathematician who made fundamental contributions to statistics, Lie groups, and Lie algebras and worked as professor for most of his career in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign until 2001. He finished his Ph.D. under the supervision of C.R. Rao from Indian Statistical Institute. He was one of the "famous four" ^[2] students of Rao: (the others were K. R. Parthasarathy, Veeravalli S. Varadarajan, and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan) in ISI during 1956-1963.

Ramaswamy Ranga Rao
Born	1935 India
Died	27 August 2021(2021-08-27) (aged 85–86) Chennai, India
Citizenship	Indian
Alma mater	Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College University of Madras [3] (PhD) Indian Statistical Institute
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Indian Statistical Institute
Doctoral advisor	C. R. Rao

After retiring in 2001, he moved to Chennai in 2015. He died on 27 August 2021. ^{[4] [5]}

Early life and education

Ramaswamy Ranga Rao was born in India in 1935 ^[6] and completed his undergraduation from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College in Chennai where he was senior to his fellow mathematician KR Parthasarathy and completed his PhD from the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata under CR Rao he was part of a group of four eminent mathematicians from ISI. ^[7]

Selected publications

• Bhattacharya, R. N.; Ranga Rao, R. (1976), Normal approximation and asymptotic expansions, John Wiley & Sons, MR   0436272 . Russian translation by V. V. Sazonov, Nauka, 1982, MR   0702344. 2nd ed., Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, MR   0855460. Chosen as a classic in the SIAM series on applied mathematics.
• Ranga Rao, R. (1993), "On some explicit formulas in the theory of Weil representation", Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 157 (2): 335–371, MR   1197062 .

References

1. "Ramaswamy Ranga Rao". IDREF. Retrieved 11 January 2026.
2. Kalyan Bidhan Sinha and B. V. Rajarama Bhat. "Veeravalli S. Varadarajan" (PDF). Louisiana State University.
3. "A different kind of mind". Bhavana .org.
4. "In Memoriam: R. Ranga Rao". UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Mathematics. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
5. "Ranga Rao". The News-Gazette. 1 September 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
6. "Ramaswamy Ranga Rao". IDREF. Retrieved 11 January 2026.
7. "A different kind of mind". Bhavana .org.