Krishnaswami Alladi (born October 5, 1955) is an Indian-American mathematician who specializes in

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. He works as a professor of mathematics at the

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, and was chair of the mathematics department there from 1998 to 2008.Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2015-01-11. He is also the editor-in-chief of ''

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'' (published by

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), which he founded in 1997. Alladi was born in

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram ( ), also known as Trivandrum, is the Capital city, capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. As of 2011, the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation had a population of 957,730 over an area of 214.86 sq. km, making it the ...

, and did his undergraduate studies at the

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, graduating in 1975. While still an undergraduate, he wrote to

Paul Erdős Paul Erdős ( ; 26March 191320September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. pursued and proposed problems in discrete mathematics, g ...

concerning his research on the function that maps each integer to the sum of its

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s (with repetition); Erdős came to Madras to meet him, and their collaboration on this subject became Alladi's first paper; the two mathematicians coauthored 5 papers in total. He earned his Ph.D. from the

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in 1978 under the supervision of Ernst G. Straus. After visiting the

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, the

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, and the

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, he became an associate professor in 1981 at the

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, which had been founded by his father

Alladi Ramakrishnan Alladi Ramakrishnan (9 August 1923 – 7 June 2008) was an Indian physicist and the founder of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Matscience) in Chennai. He made contributions to stochastic process, particle physics, algebra of matrices, ...

. He moved to the University of Florida in 1986. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural

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s of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2015-01-11.

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