Overview
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Krishnaswami Alladi
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, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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John R. Klauder
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, Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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Calyampudi R. Rao
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, Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
Contributions include surveys and research articles from notable mathematicians, statisticians, and physicists, spanning three broad areas of science
Volume will be of great interest to attendees of the ICM in Hyderabad August 2010
Historical photos, telegrams,and a biography of Alladi Ramakrishnan are of interest
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Pure Mathematics
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- Peter Sin, John G. Thompson
Pages 299-327
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Probability and Statistics
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Front Matter
Pages 335-335
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- Malay Ghosh, Kwok Pui Choi, Jialiang Li
Pages 351-357
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- Samuel S. Wu, P. V. Rao, Aparna Raychaudhuri
Pages 369-388
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- Jayaram Sethuraman, Sunder Sethuraman
Pages 389-399
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- P. R. Vittal, S. Jayasankar, V. Muralidhar
Pages 401-415
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Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Front Matter
Pages 417-417
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- V. Devanathan, S. Karthiyayini
Pages 441-463
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- Ramaswamy Jagannathan, Raghavendra Sridhar
Pages 491-501
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- Gargi Mitra-Delmotte, A. N. Mitra
Pages 529-564
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- Ragavachariar Parthasarathy
Pages 565-575
About this book
Alladi Ramakrishnan (1923–2008) was an eminent scientist who had a wide range of research interests in theoretical and mathematical physics. Professor Ramakrishnan made signi?cant contributions to probability and statistics, elem- tary particle physics, cosmic rays and astrophysics, matrix theory, and the special theory of relativity. Ramakrishnan believedstrongly that in addition to doing fun- mental research, one must contribute to the advancementof the profession. Inspired by his visit to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1957–1958, he returned to Madras and began the Theoretical Physics Seminar at his family home Ekamra Nivas. These seminars were ultimately responsible for the creation of MATSCIENCE, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1962. This institute, of which he was the Director for its ?rst 21years, has grown steadily in size and stature, and is his monumental contribution to the profession. In a distinguished scienti?c life that has spanned more than ?ve decades, Professor Ramakrishnan has come into close contact with, and was in?uenced by, several eminent mathema- cians and physicists, and has moulded the careers of his several students and young researchers. This volume, which is a tribute to his great legacy, not only deals with his signi?cant contributions to research and the profession, but also contains a ?ne collection of research and survey papers by leading physicists and mathematicians that cover a broad range of areas in the mathematical sciences.
Editors and Affiliations
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, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Krishnaswami Alladi
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, Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
John R. Klauder
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, Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
Calyampudi R. Rao
About the editors
Krishnaswami Alladi is the editor in Chief of Springer's Ramanujan Journal, and the Development in Mathematics Book series. He was chair of the mathematics department of the University of Florida. In addition to his contributions of bibliographic material about his father, Krishnaswami Alladi has directed and organized the development of this tribute volume.
C.R. Rao is inarguably the most prominent academic in the field of Statistics in current times.
John Klauder has served on the Physics Advisory Panel of the NSF and been Editor of the Journal of Mathematical Physics, and as President of the International Association of Mathematical Physics.