Komaravolu S. Chandrasekharan (born 21 November 1920) is a professor emeritus at
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. and a founding faculty member of
School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). He is
known for his work in number theory and summability and was given numerous
awards including Padma Shri, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, Ramanujan Medal, and
Honorary fellow of TIFR.
Mr.Chandrasekharan was born in 1920 to a School head master
Mr.Komaravolu Rajaiah and Padmakshamma. Chandrasekharan completed his high
school from Bapatla village in Guntur from Andhra Pradesh. He
completed his M.A. in mathematics from the Presidency College, Chennai and a
Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics, University of Madras in 1942, under
the supervision of K. Ananda Rau.
When Chandrasekharan was with the Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton, U.S.A., Homi Bhabha invited Chandrashekharan to join the
School of Mathematics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).
Chandrasekharan persuaded mathematicians from all over the world, to visit TIFR
and deliver courses of lectures. They were L. Schwarz, C. L. Siegel and many
more. In 1965, Chandrashekharan, after the death of Dr. Homi Bhabha in a plane
crash, left the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research to join the
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, where he retired in 1988.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical
Society.
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