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Harish-Chandra

1923 - 1983

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Harish-Chandra (né Harishchandra) FRS (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an Indian-American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harish-Chandra is the 836th most popular mathematician (down from 604th in 2019), the 758th most popular biography from India (down from 486th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Indian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Harish-Chandra ranks 836 out of 1,004. Before him are Friedrich Engel, Corrado Segre, George Szekeres, Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Marcel Riesz, and Oskar Perron. After him are Marina Ratner, Erich Kähler, Francesco Severi, Wolfgang Krull, Boris Galerkin, and William Shanks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Harish-Chandra ranks 382. Before him are Wim van der Voort, Eric Wolf, Hrant Shahinyan, Ine Schäffer, Buddy DeFranco, and Rose Marie. After him are Bruno Zumino, Walter Jens, Kenneth Lane, Forbes Burnham, Cyril M. Kornbluth, and László Jeney. Among people deceased in 1983, Harish-Chandra ranks 226. Before him are Kalevi Kotkas, Lisette Model, Tomás Ojeda, Jacqueline Logan, Pentti Saarikoski, and Georges Spénale. After him are Armand Lanoux, Claude Papi, Erik Ode, Gerry Hitchens, Gregorio Blasco, and Miron Białoszewski.

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In India

Among people born in India, Harish-Chandra ranks 758 out of 1,861. Before him are Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), Trilok Gurtu (1951), Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938), Tiger Shroff (1990), V. K. Sasikala (1954), and Sharman Joshi (1979). After him are Chunky Panday (1962), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), Raj Reddy (1937), Nana Patekar (1951), Swarnakumari Devi (1855), and Venkatesh (1960).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, Harish-Chandra ranks 13. Before him are Bhāskara I (600), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Jai Singh II (1688), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940). After him are Kātyāyana (-200), J. H. C. Whitehead (1904), Radhanath Sikdar (1813), Bhama Srinivasan (1935), Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930), and Raman Parimala (1948).

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