Harish Chandra

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Name Harish Chandra Citizenship United States Role Mathematician		Doctoral advisor Paul Dirac Fields Mathematics, Physics


Born 11 October 1923Kanpur, British India ( 1923-10-11 ) Institutions Indian Institute of ScienceHarvard UniversityColumbia UniversityTata Institute of Fundamental ResearchInstitute for Advanced Study Alma mater University of AllahabadUniversity of Cambridge Known for Harish-Chandra's c-functionHarish-Chandra's character formulaHarish-Chandra homomorphismHarish-Chandra isomorphismHarish-Chandra moduleHarish-Chandra's regularity theoremHarish-Chandra's Schwartz spaceHarish-Chandra transformHarish-Chandra's Ξ function Died October 16, 1983, Princeton, New Jersey, United States Books Automorphic Forms on Semisimple Lie Groups, Collected Papers I: 1944 - 1954 Education University of Cambridge (1947), BNSD Inter College, University Of Allahabad, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Similar People Paul Dirac, Satyendra Nath Bose, Erwin Schrodinger
Residence United States of America

Harish chandra

Harish-Chandra 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.

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Early life

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Harish-Chandra was born in Kanpur . He was educated at B.N.S.D. College, Kanpur and at the University of Allahabad. After receiving his master's degree in Physics in 1943, he moved to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for further studies in theoretical physics and worked with Homi J. Bhabha.

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In 1945, he moved to University of Cambridge, Cambridge and worked as a research student under Paul Dirac. While at Cambridge, he attended lectures by Wolfgang Pauli, and during one of them pointed out a mistake in Pauli's work. The two were to become lifelong friends. During this time he became increasingly interested in mathematics. At Cambridge he obtained his PhD in 1947

Honors and awards

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S. and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was the recipient of the Cole Prize of the American Mathematical Society, in 1954. The Indian National Science Academy honoured him with the Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal in 1974. In 1981, he received an honorary degree from Yale University.

The mathematics department of V.S.S.D. College, Kanpur celebrates his birthday every year in different forms, which includes lectures from students and professors from various colleges, institutes and students' visit to Harish-Chandra Research Institute.

The Indian Government named the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, an institute dedicated to Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, after him.

Robert Langlands wrote in a biographical article of Harish-Chandra:

He was also a recipient of the Indian civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan (1977).

Publications

Harish-Chandra (1968), Mars, J. G. M., ed., Automorphic forms on semisimple Lie groups, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 62, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-04232-7, MR 0232893, doi:10.1007/BFb0098434

Harish-Chandra (1970), Dijk, G. van, ed., Harmonic analysis on reductive p-adic groups, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 162, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-05189-3, MR 0414797, doi:10.1007/BFb0061269

Harish-Chandra (1984), Varadarajan, V. S., ed., Collected papers. Vol. I. 1944–1954., Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-90782-6, MR 726025

Harish-Chandra (1984), Varadarajan, V. S., ed., Collected papers. Vol. II 1955–1958., Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-90782-6, MR 726025

Harish-Chandra (1984), Varadarajan, V. S., ed., Collected papers. Vol. III 1959–1968., Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-90782-6, MR 726025

Harish-Chandra (1984), Varadarajan, V. S., ed., Collected papers. Vol. IV 1970–1983., Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-90782-6, MR 726025

Harish-Chandra (1999), DeBacker, Stephen; Sally, Paul J., eds., Admissible invariant distributions on reductive p-adic groups, University Lecture Series, 16, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-2025-4, MR 1702257

References

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