Ramaiyengar Sridharan is a

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

Chennai Mathematical Institute Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) is a higher education and research institute in Chennai, India. It was founded in 1989 by the SPIC Science Foundation, and offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in physics, mathematics and compu ...

, formerly 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 ...

(TIFR).

Early life

He was born in

Cuddalore Cuddalore, also spelt as Kadalur (), is the city and headquarters of the Cuddalore District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Situated south of Chennai, Cuddalore was an important port during the British Raj. While the early history of Cudda ...

in 1935. He obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia under the guidance of

Samuel Eilenberg Samuel Eilenberg (September 30, 1913 – January 30, 1998) was a Polish-American mathematician who co-founded category theory (with Saunders Mac Lane) and homological algebra. Early life and education He was born in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland to ...

with his thesis on

filtered algebra In mathematics, a filtered algebra is a generalization of the notion of a graded algebra. Examples appear in many branches of mathematics, especially in homological algebra and representation theory. A filtered algebra over the field k is an alg ...

s and representations of

Lie algebra In mathematics, a Lie algebra (pronounced ) is a vector space \mathfrak g together with an operation called the Lie bracket, an alternating bilinear map \mathfrak g \times \mathfrak g \rightarrow \mathfrak g, that satisfies the Jacobi iden ...

s in 1960.

Awards

Sridharan was awarded the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, ...

(SSB prize) in Mathematical Science in 1980.

Selected publications

* Filtered algebras and representations of Lie algebras, R Sridharan - Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 1961 - jstor.org * On the global dimension of some algebras, MP Murthy, R Sridharan - Mathematische Zeitschrift, 1963 - Springer Google scholar
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1935 births Living people 20th-century Indian mathematicians Tamil scientists Presidents of the Indian Mathematical Society People from Cuddalore district Scientists from Tamil Nadu Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science {{India-mathematician-stub