Ramachandran Balasubramanian Explained

Ramachandran Balasubramanian (born 15 March 1951) is an Indian mathematician and was Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai, India.^[1] He is known for his work in number theory, which includes settling the final g(4) case of Waring's problem in 1986.^{[2] [3]}

His works on moments of Riemann zeta function is highly appreciated and he was a plenary speaker from India at ICM in 2010. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1980-81.^[4]

Awards and honours

He has received the following awards:

• The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 1990.
• The French government's Ordre National du Mérite for "furthering Indo-French cooperation in the field of mathematics" in 2003.^[5]
• The Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, in 2006.^[6]
• Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012.^[7]
• The Lifetime Achievement Award, 2013 awarded by Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India.^[8]
• Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (1988)^[9]

External links

• R. Balasubramian's homepage
• His CV

Notes and References

1. Web site: IMSc Brochure . 2009-02-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090310004308/http://www.imsc.res.in/about/newpage.html . 10 March 2009 .
2. Balasubramanian, Ramachandran; Deshouillers, Jean-Marc; Dress, François, Problème de Waring pour les bicarrés. I. Schéma de la solution. (French. English summary) [Waring's problem for biquadrates. I. Sketch of the solution] Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série I 303 (1986), no. 4, pp. 85-88
3. Balasubramanian, Ramachandran; Deshouillers, Jean-Marc; Dress, François, Problème de Waring pour les bicarrés. II. Résultats auxiliaires pour le théorème asymptotique. (French. English summary) [Waring's problem for biquadrates. II. Auxiliary results for the asymptotic theorem] Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série I 303 (1986), no. 5, pp. 161-163
4. Web site: Community of Scholars Profile: Balasubramanian, R. . . 27 September 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151125100012/https://www.ias.edu/people/cos/users/rbalasubra01 . 25 November 2015 . dmy-all.
5. News: French honour mathematician Balasubramanian . The Times Of India . 5 February 2003.
6. Web site: India at a Glance. india.gov.in. 4 March 2015.
7. https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
8. Web site: PM honours 4 N-scientists with lifetime achievement awards. 15 January 2013. rediff.com. 4 March 2015.
9. Web site: Indian Fellow . INSA . 2016 . May 13, 2016.