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S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

1940 - Today

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Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan, (born 2 January 1940) is an Indian American mathematician. He is known for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviations. He is regarded as one of the fundamental contributors to the theory of diffusion processes with an orientation towards the refinement and further development of Itô’s stochastic calculus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan has received more than 400,682 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan is the 839th most popular mathematician (down from 792nd in 2019), the 717th most popular biography from India (down from 643rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Indian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan ranks 839 out of 1,004. Before him are Curtis T. McMullen, Nathan Jacobson, Friedrich Engel, Sergey Nikolsky, Tom M. Apostol, and William Feller. After him are Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Walther von Dyck, Marshall Harvey Stone, Thomas Henderson, Simon Donaldson, and John H. Coates.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan ranks 460. Before him are Terry McDermott, John Esposito, Marcel Aubour, Mariette Hartley, Apolo Nsibambi, and Fred Hansen. After him are Dani Shmulevich-Rom, Walter Alvarez, Luis Ubiña, Jozef Štibrányi, Dave DeBusschere, and Paul Williams.

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In India

Among people born in India, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan ranks 717 out of 1,861. Before him are Veerappan (1952), Ramdev (1965), Ravindra Prabhat (1969), Danny Denzongpa (1948), M. K. Stalin (1953), and Sunil Chhetri (1984). After him are Shyam Benegal (1934), P. T. Usha (1964), Feroz Khan (1939), Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947), Saeed Jaffrey (1929), and Nirmala Sitharaman (1959).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan ranks 14. Before him are Jai Singh II (1688), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), Harish-Chandra (1923), Kātyāyana (-200), and Sulochana Gadgil (1944). After him are Radhanath Sikdar (1813), Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930), J. H. C. Whitehead (1904), Bhama Srinivasan (1935), Raman Parimala (1948), and Akshay Venkatesh (1981).

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