Daya-Nand Verma (25 June 1933,
Varanasi
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– 10 June 2012,
Mumbai
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[) was a mathematician at the ]Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a public deemed research university located in Mumbai, India that is dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the De ...
during the period 1968-1993. The construction of Verma module Verma modules, named after Daya-Nand Verma, are objects in the representation theory of Lie algebras, a branch of mathematics.
Verma modules can be used in the classification of irreducible representations of a complex semisimple Lie algebra. Sp ...
s appears in his Ph.D. thesis as a student of Nathan Jacobson
Nathan Jacobson (October 5, 1910 – December 5, 1999) was an American mathematician.
Biography
Born Nachman Arbiser in Warsaw, Jacobson emigrated to America with his family in 1918. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1930 and was awar ...
at Yale University
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.[Arun Ra]
D-N. VERMA (1933-2012): A MEMORY
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References
External links
Math Genealogy Project
Oberwolfach Photo Collection
D_n_Verma
Daya-Nand Verma, On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) is an online database of integer sequences. It was created and maintained by Neil Sloane while researching at AT&T Labs. He transferred the intellectual property and hosting of the OEIS to ...
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1933 births
2012 deaths
Yale University alumni
Scientists from Varanasi
20th-century Indian mathematicians