Raghavan Narasimhan (August 31, 1937 – October 3, 2015) was an Indian

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at the

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who worked on

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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.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Narasimhan, Raghavan 1937 births 2015 deaths 20th-century Indian mathematicians University of Chicago faculty Complex analysts