S. Ramanan
| S Ramanan | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sundararaman Ramanan 20 July 1937 |
| Nationality | India |
| Fields | algebraic geometry, moduli spaces, Lie groups |
| Institutions |
Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
| Alma mater |
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, Chennai |
| Doctoral advisor | MS Narasimhan |
| Notable awards |
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Ramanujan Prize TWAS Prize for Mathematics |
Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
S (Sundararaman) Ramanan (born 20 July 1937) is an Indian mathematician who works in the area of algebraic geometry, moduli spaces and Lie groups. He is one of India's leading mathematicians and internationally recognised as an outstanding expert in algebraic geometry, especially in the area of modulii problems. He has also done some very beautiful work in differential geometry: his joint paper with MS Narasimhan on universal connections has been very influential. It enabled, among other things, SS Chern and B Simons to introduce what is known as the Chern-Simons invariant, which has proved useful in theoretical physics.
The honours awarded to Professor Ramanan include the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, India's highest science prize, in 1979; the TWAS Prize for Mathematics in 2001 and the Ramanujan Medal in 2010.
He is the nephew of the Sanskrit scholar and Vedanta expert, the late Ramachandra Dikshitar, who was a professor at the Banaras Hindu University. Professor Ramanan is also a great aficionado and an amateur singer of Carnatic music.
He is an alumnus of the Ramakrishna Mission School in Chennai and the Vivekananda College in Chennai, where he completed a BA Honours in mathematics, standing second in mathematics and first in English among students of the science stream in the final exams in what was then Madras Presidency. He completed his PhD at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, under the direction of MS Narasimhan, with whom he collaborated for decades. He did his post-doctoral studies at Oxford University, Harvard University and ETH Zurich.
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