MATHEMATICIAN

Harish-Chandra

1923 - 1983

Photo of Harish-Chandra

Icon of person Harish-Chandra

Harish-Chandra Mehrotra 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harish-Chandra has received more than 608,632 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Harish-Chandra is the 604th most popular mathematician (up from 802nd in 2019), the 486th most popular biography from India (up from 664th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Indian Mathematician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 610k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Harish-Chandra ranks 604 out of 1,004. Before him are Wilhelm Jordan, Diederik Korteweg, Louis J. Mordell, Beppo Levi, Benjamin Peirce, and Michael Freedman. After him are Pietro Mengoli, Julius Petersen, Luigi Bianchi, Ilia Vekua, Grete Hermann, and Friedrich Waismann.

Most Popular Mathematicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Harish-Chandra ranks 257. Before him are Marc Riboud, Rhonda Fleming, Rentarō Mikuni, Jim Marshall, Charlie Mariano, and Somnath Sharma. After him are Giulio Cabianca, James Arness, Fats Navarro, Ahti Karjalainen, Juan Burgueño, and Rudolf Augstein. Among people deceased in 1983, Harish-Chandra ranks 136. Before him are Nichita Stănescu, Mykola Bazhan, Mary Renault, Christophe Soglo, Bill Brandt, and Juan Carlos Zabala. After him are Oddbjørn Hagen, Bart Bok, Valentín González, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Gunnar Thoroddsen, and Adrian Boult.

Others Born in 1923

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1983

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In India

Among people born in India, Harish-Chandra ranks 486 out of 1,861. Before him are Mahadev Desai (1892), Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886), Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), Mamata Banerjee (1955), Somnath Sharma (1923), and Sharad Pawar (1940). After him are Om Puri (1950), Arundhati Roy (1961), Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805), Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928), Nutan (1936), and Kumaragupta I (400).

Others born in India

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, Harish-Chandra ranks 11. Before him are S. R. Ranganathan (1892), Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), Bhāskara I (600), Jai Singh II (1688), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), and Nilakantha Somayaji (1444). After him are Kātyāyana (-200), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940), Radhanath Sikdar (1813), Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930), and J. H. C. Whitehead (1904).

Indian born Mathematicians

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous