R. Ranga Rao
Ramaswamy Ranga Rao (* 1935 in India ) is an Indian mathematician who specializes in harmonic analysis and representation theory.
He received his doctorate from the University of Calcutta in 1961. He previously studied at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Calcutta (Kolkata) as one of the Famous Four (the others were VS Varadarajan , KR Parthasarathy , SR Srinivasa Varadhan ), the PhD student of CR Rao . He was at the University of Illinois for over forty years . Rao was visiting professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and 1968 at the Institute for Advanced Study .
He deals with reducible algebraic groups and their representations and harmonic analysis on homogeneous spaces.
Fonts
- with Rabindra N. Bhattacharya: Normal approximation and asymptotic expansions. Wiley, New York NY et al. 1976, ISBN 0-471-07201-X (Reprinted edition with corrections & supplemental material, updated: (= Classics in Applied Mathematics. 64). SIAM, Philadelphia PA 2010, ISBN 978-0-898718- 97-3 ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of birth according to the membership book Institute for Advanced Study 1980
- ↑ Membership Book IAS 1980
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ranga Rao, R. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ranga Rao, Ramaswamy (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | India |