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S.R.
SRINIVASA VARADHAN |
PADMA BHUSHAN 2008
An Indian-American Mathematician
National Medal of Science (2010)
from President Barack Obama
(the
highest honour bestowed by the
U.S.
government on scientists,
engineers and inventors)
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ABOUT
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Full Name
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Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan |
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Date of Birth
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2 January 1940 |
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Place of birth |
Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India. |
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Activity / Profession |
Mathematician |
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Nationality |
Indian-American |
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Description
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FRS - Fellow of Royal Society.
An
Indian American mathematician who is known for his fundamental contributions
to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large
deviations.
He received his doctorate in 1963 from the Indian Statistical
Institute.
His awards and honours include the National Medal of
Science (2010) from President Barack Obama, the highest honour bestowed by the
United States government on scientists, engineers and inventors". He
received also the Birkhoff Prize (1994), the Margaret and Herman Sokol Award
of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University (1995), and the Leroy
P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (1996) from the American
Mathematical Society, awarded for his work with Daniel W. Stroock on diffusion
processes.
He was awarded the Abel Prize in 2007 for his work on large
deviations with M. D. Donsker.
In 2008, the Government of India awarded him
the Padma Bhushan.
He also has two honorary degrees from Université Pierre et
Marie Curie in Paris (2003) and from Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata,
India (2004).
He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
(1995), and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2009). He was
elected to Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988), the
Third World Academy of Sciences (1988), the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (1991), the Royal Society (1998), the Indian Academy of Sciences
(2004), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._R._Srinivasa_Varadhan
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