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Jaikumar Radhakrishnan
Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (born 30 May 1964) is an Indian computer scientist specialising in combinatorics and communication complexity. He has served as dean of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research#School of Technology and Computer Science, School of Technology and Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, where he is currently a senior professor. He obtained his B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science from Rutgers University, NJ, USA, in 1991 under the guidance of Endre Szemerédi. His first research paper, titled "Better Bounds for Threshold Formulas", won the Machtey Award for best student paper at the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) in 1991. His areas of research include combinatorics, graph theory, probability theory, information theory, communication complexity, computational complexity theory, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Combinatorics
Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and as an end to obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many applications ranging from logic to statistical physics and from evolutionary biology to computer science. Combinatorics is well known for the breadth of the problems it tackles. Combinatorial problems arise in many areas of pure mathematics, notably in algebra, probability theory, topology, and geometry, as well as in its many application areas. Many combinatorial questions have historically been considered in isolation, giving an ''ad hoc'' solution to a problem arising in some mathematical context. In the later twentieth century, however, powerful and general theoretical methods were developed, making combinatorics into an independent branch of mathematics in its own right. One of the oldest and most accessible parts of combinatorics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |