Maths `Nobel` for India-born professor

[Lilo]

Maths `Nobel` for India-born professor
Oslo, March 28: India-born Srinivasa S R Varadhan has been named winner of the Norwegian Abel Prize, known as the Nobel Prize for mathematics.

Varadhan was cited for his "fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for a unified theory of large deviations", the jury said. The award is worth 6 million kroner ($920,000).

In mathematics, probability theory is the tool used to analyse situations governed by chance, while his theory of large deviations was said to have provided explanations applicable in "fields as diverse as quantum field theory, statistical physics, population dynamics, econometrics and finance, traffic engineering".

Varadhan, born in 1940 in Chennai, has since 1963 worked at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, where he is a professor of mathematics and currently Frank J Gould Professor of Science. He is now a US citizen. "I come from south India, and Ramanujan`s name is extremely well known there. Even in high school our teachers talked about him, as somebody from a different generation of course, but who reached exalted heights. He was a role model for me," Varadhan said.

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Sad that we lost a generation of brilliant Indians to western countries...
But i still have great hope that I'll see many home grown nobels form our generation

anyways, my congratulations to you, sir

:army:

 

[niaz]

Sad that we lost a generation of brilliant Indians to western countries...
But i still have great hope that I'll see many home grown nobels form our generation

anyways, my congratulations to you, sir

:army:

I have been an admirer of South Indians scientific proficiency ever since in school I read about Sir CV Raman and Raman Affect ( Scattering of light). Carry on the good work Chennai. It is about time that the subcontinent catches up with the West. No doubt Noble Prize in literature is as important, but for a chauvnistic male like myself, only 4 prizes really matter; Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Medicine. Congratulations.

 

[Adux]

Congrats to Him,
I saw in NDTV, one of our Hockey Olympic heroes, serving pav bhaji in street corner to earn bread and butter. Sunil Gavaskar Foundation, has enlisted him into Gavaskar Retired Sportsperson Pension Scheme.

Our country has to still respect and award its heroes, wether sports or Academic.

 

[araz]

Congrats to Him,
I saw in NDTV, one of our Hockey Olympic heroes, serving pav bhaji in street corner to earn bread and butter. Sunil Gavaskar Foundation, has enlisted him into Gavaskar Retired Sportsperson Pension Scheme.

Our country has to still respect and award its heroes, wether sports or Academic.

Adux.
Firstly congratulations to this great man who has done his country proud and long may our region produce brilliance like Tegore , Abdul Salam,and him.
Unfortunately, the developing world is full of examples like your poor olympic hero. Also for everyone of these great people that are discovered to be living in abject poverty, tens are never discovered and die in same state. Hopefully, our society will discover some of its lost values and give these people their just rewards.
Regards
Araz

 

[Adux]

Adux.
Hopefully, our society will discover some of its lost values and give these people their just rewards.
Regards
Araz

That is one line, I dearly hope will come true, Pakistan India or Timbkatu

 

[blain2]

Good stuff!

 

[Neo]

Congrats!

 

[Contrarian]

Congrats, i hope we produce more nobel laureates and those who stay in India, rather than reading the perennial 'Indian born'.

BTW Its Abdul Kalam, not Salam. He is the president of our country.

 

[A.Rahman]

Congrats, i hope we produce more nobel laureates and those who stay in India, rather than reading the perennial 'Indian born'.

BTW Its Abdul Kalam, not Salam. He is the president of our country.

He worked at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York.

He was given opportunities that he would have deprived of in India. If India gives starts giving same opportunities then its different story.

 

[Keysersoze]

Here's a few others that need to be noted........


Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (IAST Srinivāsa Aiyangār Rāmānujan) (December 22, 1887 – April 26, 1920) was a self-taught Indian mathematician regarded as one of the "greatest mathematical minds in history"[1] because of his deep intuition and uncanny mathematical manipulative ability. With little formal training, he made profound contributions in the areas of analysis, partition theory and summation formulas involving constants such as π.

A child prodigy, Ramanujan was largely self-taught in mathematics and compiled over 3,200 theorems during his short lifetime. Many of his theorems were stated without accompanying proof and were only later proven to be true. His results were highly original and unconventional, and have inspired a vast amount of research; however, some of his discoveries have been slow to enter the mathematical mainstream. Recently his formulae have begun to be applied in the field of crystallography, and other applications in physics. The Ramanujan Journal was launched to publish work "in areas of mathematics influenced by Ramanujan".

 

[Keysersoze]

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர&#3021 (October 19, 1910, Lahore, British India, now Pakistan, – August 21, 1995, Chicago, Illinois, United States) was an American astrophysicist born of Tamil heritage in Lahore[1]. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with William Alfred Fowler) for his theoretical work on the structure and evolution of stars.

Chandrasekhar served on the University of Chicago faculty from 1937 until his death in 1995 at the age of 84. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1953.

 

[araz]

Congrats, i hope we produce more nobel laureates and those who stay in India, rather than reading the perennial 'Indian born'.

BTW Its Abdul Kalam, not Salam. He is the president of our country.

I was just referring to our noble laureate Dr Abdul Salam who got the noble prize in Physics.
Regards
Araz