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Harish-Chandra

1923 - 1983

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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 575,358 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Harish-Chandra is the 805th most popular mathematician (down from 791st in 2019), the 668th most popular biography from India (up from 722nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Indian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Harish-Chandra ranks 805 out of 823Before him are Ivan Petrovsky, Yasumasa Kanada, Garrett Birkhoff, Richard Rado, Stanislav Smirnov, and Marston Morse. After him are Ormond Stone, Anatoly Maltsev, Horace Lamb, Cleve Moler, Radhanath Sikdar, and Barry Mazur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Harish-Chandra ranks 375Before him are Robert Sabatier, Rose Marie, Ivano Blason, Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Mort Walker, and Sam Rivers. After him are Dolores Fuller, Noël Vandernotte, Albert Decourtray, Viktor Shuvalov, Larry Storch, and Willie Steele. Among people deceased in 1983, Harish-Chandra ranks 213Before him are Claude Papi, Walter Slezak, Gerry Hitchens, Kalevi Kotkas, John Le Mesurier, and Sabin Carr. After him are André Chamson, George Bruns, Merle Travis, Lutz Eigendorf, Derek J. de Solla Price, and Billy Fury.

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In India

Among people born in India, Harish-Chandra ranks 668 out of 1,493Before him are Michael Bates (1920), R. D. Burman (1939), Raja Ramanna (1925), Charles Sturt (1795), Muiz ud din Bahram (null), and Baselios Cleemis (1959). After him are Juhi Chawla (1967), Govinda (1963), V. K. Krishna Menon (1896), Mumtaz (1947), Sumitra Mahajan (1943), and Dawood Ibrahim (1955).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, Harish-Chandra ranks 13Before him are Bhāskara I (600), Jai Singh II (1688), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940). After him are Radhanath Sikdar (1813), J. H. C. Whitehead (1904), Bhama Srinivasan (1935), Akshay Venkatesh (1981), and Raman Parimala (1948).