Raghavan Narasimhan

Raghavan Narasimhan (born August 31, 1937 in India , † October 3, 2015 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an Indian mathematician who dealt with function theory.

life and career

He attended Loyola College in Madras , where, like many other well-known Indian mathematicians, he was taught by the French Jesuit Father Racine, and received his doctorate in 1963 under K. Chandrasekharan in Bombay . In 1966/67 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . Narasimhan was a professor at the University of Chicago .

He solved the Levi problem (after EE Levi ) for complex spaces, as well as independently Hans Grauert . He generalized the concept of pseudoconvexity to general complex spaces and characterized Stein's spaces as pseudo-complete spaces.

Narasimhan was responsible for the new edition of Bernhard Riemann's works in 1990, for which he also wrote a mathematical appraisal of Riemann's.

He is not to be confused with MS Narasimhan and Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer .

Fonts

as an author

Complex analysis in one variable. 2nd ed. Birkhäuser, Basel 2001, ISBN 3-7643-4164-5 (reprint of the edition Boston, Mass. 1985).
Several complex variables. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1971, ISBN 0-226-56817-2 .
Compact Riemann Surfaces . Birkhäuser, Basel 1992, ISBN 3-7643-2742-1 .
Analysis on real and complex manifolds (North-Holland Mathematical Library; Vol. 35). North-Holland Books, Amsterdam 1985, ISBN 0-444-87776-2 (reprint of the Paris 1973 edition).
Introduction to the theory of analytic spaces (Lecture Notes in Mathematics; Vol. 25). Springer, Berlin 1966.
The coming of age of mathematics in India , in Michael Atiyah u. a. Miscellanea Mathematica , Springer Verlag 1991

as editor

Bernhard Riemann : Collected Works. Scientific papers and supplements . Springer, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-540-50033-2 .

Web links

Literature by and about Raghavan Narasimhan in the catalog of the German National Library
Narasimhan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Individual evidence

↑ Raghavan Narasimhan, analytically deft mathematician, 1937-2015
^ Raghavan Narasimhan: The Levi Problem for Complex Spaces . In: Mathematische Annalen , Vol. 142 (1961), pp. 355-365, ISSN 0025-5831 ; Raghavan Narasimhan: The Levi Problem in the theory of functions of several complex variables . In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. 1 . ICM, Stockholm 1962, pp. 385-388.
↑ For example Hans Grauert The Significance of the Levian Problem for Analytic and Algebraic Geometry . In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. 1 . ICM, Stockholm 1963, pp. 86-101.

personal data
SURNAME	Narasimhan, Raghavan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Indian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 31, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	India
DATE OF DEATH	3rd October 2015
Place of death	Chicago , Illinois , United States

[1] Raghavan Narasimhan, analytically deft mathematician, 1937-2015

[2] Raghavan Narasimhan: The Levi Problem for Complex Spaces . In: Mathematische Annalen , Vol. 142 (1961), pp. 355-365, ISSN 0025-5831 ; Raghavan Narasimhan: The Levi Problem in the theory of functions of several complex variables . In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. 1 . ICM, Stockholm 1962, pp. 385-388.

[3] For example Hans Grauert The Significance of the Levian Problem for Analytic and Algebraic Geometry . In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. 1 . ICM, Stockholm 1963, pp. 86-101.