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Also known as Harish-Chandra Mehrotra

Harish-Chandra (né Harishchandra) FRS (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an Indian-American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.

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Works
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  • Collected Papers IV
  • Collected Papers I
  • Collected Papers II
  • Lectures in Modern Analysis and Applications II
  • Collected Papers III

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1965-03-14
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Quotes

  • I have often pondered over the roles of knowledge or experience, on the one hand, and imagination or intuition, on the other, in the process of discovery. I believe that there is a certain fundamental conflict between the two, and knowledge, by advocating caution, tends to inhibit the flight of imagination. Therefore, a certain naiveté, unburdened by conventional wisdom, can sometimes be a positive asset.
  • In mathematics we agree that clear thinking is very important, but fuzzy thinking is just as important.

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Key facts

Scientist.known_for
Harish-Chandra's c-function Harish-Chandra's character formula Harish-Chandra homomorphismHarish-Chandra isomorphism Harish-Chandra integral Harish-Chandra module Harish-Chandra's regularity theorem Harish-Chandra's Schwartz space Harish-Chandra transform Harish-Chandra's Ξ function Philosophy of cusp forms
Scientist.field
Mathematics, Physics
Scientist.work_institutions
Indian Institute of Science Harvard University Columbia University Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Institute for Advanced Study
Scientist.prizes
Fellow of the Royal SocietyCole Prize in Algebra (1954)Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal
Scientist.name
Harish-Chandra
Scientist.image
Harish-Chandra 4.jpg
Scientist.birth_place
Kanpur, India
Scientist.death_place
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Scientist.citizenship
United States
Scientist.alma_mater
University of AllahabadUniversity of Cambridge

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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Early life
  • Honors and awards
  • Personal life
  • Death
  • References
  • Publications
  • Bibliography
  • External links

Harish-Chandra (né Harishchandra) FRS (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an Indian-American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.

==Early life== Harish-Chandra was born in Kanpur. He was educated at B.N.S.D. College, Kanpur and at the University of Allahabad. After receiving his master's degree in physics in 1940, he moved to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for further studies under Homi J. Bhabha.

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