Harish-Chandra
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Template:DMCA Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Harish-Chandra (né Harishchandra) FRS[1][2] (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.[3][4][5]
Early life
Harish-Chandra was born in Kanpur.[6] He was educated at B.N.S.D. College, Kanpur and at the University of Allahabad.[7] After receiving his master's degree in physics in 1940, he moved to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for further studies under Homi J. Bhabha.[citation needed]
In 1945, he moved to University of Cambridge, and worked as a research student under Paul Dirac.[7] While at Cambridge, he attended lectures by Wolfgang Pauli, and during one of them, Harish-Chandra pointed out a mistake in Pauli's work. The two became lifelong friends. During this time he became increasingly interested in mathematics. He obtained his PhD, Infinite Irreducible Representations of the Lorentz Group, at Cambridge in 1947 under Dirac.[3]
Honors and awards
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society.[1] 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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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 Padma Bhushan in 1977.[8]
Personal life
In 1952, Harish-Chandra married Lalitha "Lily" Kale (1934–2019). Kale, whose father was an Indian food scientist and whose mother was a Polish Jew, was born in Warsaw but grew up in Bangalore after her family fled Poland in 1939 or 1940. They had two daughters, Premala Chandra and Devika Chandra; Premala also became a physicist.[9][10]
Death
Starting in 1969, Harish-Chandra began to experience heart attacks. A second and third heart attack occurred in 1970 and 1982, respectively. From then, his physical capabilities began to decline. A fourth heart attack occurred in 1983, leaving him mostly bedridden and in isolation. On the day after a conference organized for him and mathematician Armand Borel took place, Harish-Chandra died from his final heart attack.[11]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Varadarajan, V. S. (1984). "Harish-Chandra (1923–1983)". The Mathematical Intelligencer. 6 (3): 9–13. doi:10.1007/BF03024122. S2CID 122014700.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Madhavan, Girija (16 February 2024). "The grand wedding of 1950 in Mysore: When a Brilliant Mathematician wed a Graceful Mysorean at a grand hotel in a stylish manner". Star of Mysore. Retrieved 23 May 2025.
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Publications
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Harish-Chandra (1968), Mars, J. G. M. (ed.), Automorphic Forms on Semisimple Lie Groups, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 62, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/BFb0098434, ISBN 978-3-540-04232-7, MR 0232893, S2CID 118891017
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Harish-Chandra (1970), Dijk, G. van (ed.), Harmonic Analysis on Reductive p-adic Groups, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 162, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/BFb0061269, ISBN 978-3-540-05189-3, MR 0414797
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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 0726025
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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 0726025
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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 0726025
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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 0726025
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Harish-Chandra (1999), DeBacker, Stephen; Sally, Paul J. (eds.), Admissible invariant distributions on reductive p-adic groups, University Lecture Series, vol. 16, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, doi:10.1090/ulect/016, ISBN 978-0-8218-2025-4, MR 1702257
Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Doran, Robert S.; Varadarajan, V. S., eds. (2000), "The mathematical legacy of Harish-Chandra", Proceedings of the AMS Special Session on Representation Theory and Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis, held in memory of Harish-Chandra on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of his birth, in Baltimore, MD, January 9–10, 1998, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, vol. 68, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, pp. xii+551, doi:10.1090/pspum/068, ISBN 978-0-8218-1197-9, MR 1767886
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Srivastava, R. S. L. (1986), "About Harish Chandra", Gaṇita Bhãrati. Indian Society for History of Mathematics. Bulletin, 8 (1): 42–43, ISSN 0970-0307, MR 0888666
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Varadarajan, V. S. (2003), "Harish-Chandra", Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
External links
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