K. G. Ramanathan

Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan ( born November 10, 1920 in Hyderabad (India ), † 10 May 1992, Bombay ) was an Indian mathematician who was concerned with number theory.

Ramanathan studied mathematics at the Osmania University in Hyderabad with a Bachelor 's degree and at the University of Madras with the master's degree. His first works in number theory appeared in the 1940s. He went in 1948 to the United States to the Institute for Advanced Study ( IAS am ) and in 1951 his doctorate under Emil Artin at Princeton ( The theory of units of quadratic and hermitian forms). At the IAS, he was the assistant to Hermann Weyl and was particularly influenced by Carl Ludwig Siegel. In 1951 he was back in India and went to the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, where he was Professor and K. Chandrasekharan built a number theory group. In 1985, he went into retirement.

Some of his first works in the 1940s dealt with the results of S. Ramanujan, and later he studied his unpublished work ( notebooks ), which was reflected in several publications of Ramanathan.

He was a member of the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences. Ramanathan Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize was awarded the (1965 ), the Homi Bhabha and the Padma Bhushan medal (1983). He was president of the Indian Mathematical Society and more than ten years editor of the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society. He was also in the editorial board of Acta Arithmetica.

His doctoral counts C. P. Ramanujam.

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