Krishnaswami Alladi

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Krishnaswami Alladi (born October 5, 1955 in Thiruvananthapuram ) is an Indian-American mathematician who mainly works in the field of number theory and deals with partitions and q-hypergeometric series, among other things . He is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Florida , where he was Head of the Mathematics Department from 1998 to 2008. He is also editor-in-chief of the Ramanujan Journal (Springer-Verlag), which he founded in 1997

Alladi studied at the University of Madras , where he graduated in 1975. While still a student, he wrote a letter to Paul Erdős in which he described his research on the function that maps every natural number to the sum of its prime factors (with multiplicity). Erdős then came to Madras to meet him, and their joint work on the subject became Alladi's first publication. He received his doctorate in 1978 from the University of California, Los Angeles under Ernst G. Straus . After stays at the University of Michigan , the Institute for Advanced Study , and the University of Hawaii , he took up a position as associate professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, which was founded by his father Alladi Ramakrishnan . In 1986 he moved to the University of Florida.

Alladi was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.

References

  1. ↑ a b c d e curriculum vitae , accessed on March 12, 2016.
  2. ^ The Ramanujan Journal , Springer-Verlag, accessed March 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ K. Alladi, P. Erdős: "On an additive arithmetic function", Pacific Journal of Mathematics 71 (2): 275-294, 1977, doi : 10.2140 / pjm.1977.71.275
  4. ↑ Krishnaswami Alladi and Paul Erdős , VarahaMihira Gopu, YouTube, December 28, 2013, accessed on March 12, 2016. Video recording of a lecture in which Alladi tells the story of his meeting with Erdős.
  5. ^ Krishnaswami Alladi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society , accessed March 12, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Alladi, Krishnaswami
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian-American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Thiruvananthapuram