Harish-Chandra

Harish-Chandra

Born: 11 Oct 1923 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died: 16 Oct 1983 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA

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Harish-Chandra studied at Cambridge for his Ph.D. under Dirac's supervision. He obtained his degree in 1947 and, the same year, he went to the USA. Harish-Chandra worked at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton from 1963.

His main work was on representations of semisimple Lie groups.

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References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. R P Langlands, Harish-Chandra, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society of London 31 (1985), 199-225.
  3. V S Varadarajan, Harish-Chandra (1923- 1983), Mathematical Intelligencer 6 (1984), 9-13, 19.
  4. S L Srivastava, About Harish Chandra, Ganita-Bharati. Bulletin of the Indian Society for the History of Mathematics 8 (1986), 42-43.
  5. R A Herb, Harish-Chandra and his work, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 25 (1991), 1-17. 
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