V. Kumar Murty

Vijaya Kumar Murty (* 1956 ) is an Indian-Canadian mathematician who specializes in number theory , arithmetic geometry, and algebraic geometry .

V. Kumar Murty in Oberwolfach

Murty studied at Carleton University with a bachelor's degree in 1977 and received his doctorate in 1982 from Harvard University with John T. Tate ( Algebraic cycles on abelian varieties ). He is a professor at the University of Toronto .

In 1991 he received the Coxeter James Prize and in 1995 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada .

He is the brother of mathematician M. Ram Murty , with whom he works a lot.

Fonts

with M. Ram Murty : The Mathematical Legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Springer, New Delhi et al. 2012, ISBN 978-81-322-0769-6 .
as editor Algebraic curves and cryptography (= Fields Institute Communications. 58). American Mathematical Society et al., Providence RI 2010, ISBN 978-0-8218-4311-6 .
with M. Ram Murty Non-vanishing of functions and applications ${\ displaystyle L}$ (= Progress in Mathematics. 157). Birkhäuser, Boston MA et al. 1997, ISBN 0-8176-5801-7 (the book received the Ferran-Sunyer-i-Balaguer Prize in 1996 ).
as editor of Seminar on Fermat's Last Theorem. 1993-1994 (= Canadian Mathematical Society. Conference Proceedings. 17). American Mathematical Society, Providence RI 1995, ISBN 0-8218-0313-1 .
Introduction to Abelian Varieties (= CRM Monograph Series. 3). American Mathematical Society, Providence RI 1993, ISBN 0-8218-6995-7 .