M. Ram Murty Explained

M. Ram Murty
Birth Date:	16 October 1953
Birth Place:	Guntur, India
Nationality:	Canadian
Fields:	Mathematics
Workplaces:	McGill University Queen's University
Alma Mater:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral Advisor:	Harold Stark Dorian M. Goldfeld
Awards:	Coxeter–James Prize (1988)

Maruti Ram Pedaprolu Murty, FRSC (born 16 October 1953)^[1] is an Indo-Canadian mathematician at Queen's University, where he holds a Queen's Research Chair^[2] in mathematics.

Biography

M. Ram Murty is the brother of mathematician V. Kumar Murty.^[3]

Murty graduated with a B.Sc. from Carleton University in 1976.^[4] He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supervised by Harold Stark and Dorian Goldfeld. He was on the faculty of McGill University from 1982 until 1996, when he joined Queen's University. Murty is also cross-appointed as a professor of philosophy at Queen's, specialising in Indian philosophy.^[5]

Research

Specializing in number theory, Murty is a researcher in the areas of modular forms, elliptic curves, and sieve theory.

Murty has Erdős number 1 and frequently collaborates with his brother, V. Kumar Murty.

Awards

Murty received the Coxeter–James Prize in 1988.^[6] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1990,^[7] was elected to the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 2008,^[8] and became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.^[9]

Selected publications

• Book: Cojocaru . Alina Carmen . Alina Carmen Cojocaru . Murty . M. Ram . An introduction to sieve methods and their applications . . 2006 . 0-521-84816-4 . 2200366 . London Mathematical Society Student Texts . 66 . .^[10]
• Murty . M. Ram . Murty . V. Kumar . Mean values of derivatives of modular L-series . . Second Series . 133 . 1991 . 447–475 . 10.2307/2944316 . 3 . 2944316 . Annals of Mathematics . 1109350 . .

External links

• Murty's home page at Queen's

Notes and References

1. September 2007 . Biographies of Candidates 2007 . . 54 . 8 . 1043–1057 . 25 May 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090902104456/http://www.ams.org/notices/200708/tx070801043p.pdf . 2009-09-02 . live .
2. Web site: Ram Murty's home page . 22 January 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120121020932/http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~murty/ . 2012-01-21 . live .
3. Alex Michalos (editor), The Best Teacher I ever Had, Personal Reports from Highly Productive Scholars, The University of Western Ontario, London, 2003, 290p. .
4. Web site: Murty . M. Ram . 2017-06-02 . How I Discovered Euclidean Proofs . 2022-07-01.
5. Web site: Faculty and Fellows at the Department of Philosophy of Queen's University . 2022-07-01 .
6. Web site: Coxeter–James Prize . . 3 December 2021.
7. Web site: Membership . Royal Society of Canada . 10 October 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120309013246/http://www.rsc.ca/submitsearch.php?sFirstName=M.+Ram&sLastName=Murty&sAcademy=&sAffiliation=&sElection=&btnSearch=Search . 9 March 2012 . dead . dmy-all .
8. Web site: INSA newsletter. https://web.archive.org/web/20091024223115/http://www.insaindia.org/Newsletter/IN%20194.pdf. dead. 24 October 2009. Indian National Science Academy (INSA). 15 November 2010.
9. https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
10. Thorne. Frank. Book Review: An introduction to sieve methods and their applications by Alina Carmen Cojocaru and M. Ram Murty and Opera de cribro by John Friedlander and Henryk Iwaniec. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 50. 2. 2012. 359–366. 0273-0979. 10.1090/S0273-0979-2012-01390-3. free.