Raghavan Narasimhan

Indian mathematician
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Raghavan Narasimhan
BornAugust 31 1937
Alma materLoyola College, Chennai

Raghavan Narasimhan (August 31, 1937 – October 3, 2015) was an Indian mathematician at the University of Chicago who worked on real and complex manifolds and who solved the Levi problem for complex manifolds.[1]

Early life and education

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

References

  1. ^ "Raghavan Narasimhan, analytically deft mathematician, 1937-2015". uchicago.edu.

Bibliography

  • Narasimhan, Raghavan (1963), "The Levi problem in the theory of functions of several complex variables", Proc. Internat. Congr. Mathematicians (Stockholm, 1962), Djursholm: Inst. Mittag-Leffler, pp. 385–388, MR 0176096, archived from the original on 2011-07-17
  • Narasimhan, Raghavan (1971), Several complex variables, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.-London, ISBN 978-0-226-56817-1, MR 0342725

External links

  • Raghavan Narasimhan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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