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MATHEMATICIAN

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 374,241 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan is the 795th most popular mathematician (down from 747th in 2019), the 647th most popular biography from India (down from 600th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Indian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan ranks 795 out of 823Before him are Luis Caffarelli, Erna Schneider Hoover, George Peacock, Jacob Bronowski, James Lighthill, and Nicolas Fuss. After him are Roger Apéry, Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Solomon Marcus, Ivan Petrovsky, Yasumasa Kanada, and Garrett Birkhoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan ranks 454Before him are Alberto Fouilloux, Mariette Hartley, Edmund White, Jaak Lipso, Willi Holdorf, and Arthur Alexander. After him are Wolfgang Paul, Dorrit Willumsen, Daniel J. Travanti, Aristides Royo, Robert Budzynski, and Brian Bennett.

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In India

Among people born in India, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan ranks 647 out of 1,493Before him are Nana Patekar (1951), R. K. Laxman (1921), Mrinalini Sarabhai (1918), Telesphore Toppo (1939), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), and Sam Manekshaw (1914). After him are Sheila Dikshit (1938), Spike Milligan (1918), Rambhadracharya (1950), Godfrey Brown (1915), Jasraj (1930), and Tarsem Singh (1961).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan ranks 12Before him are Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), Bhāskara I (600), Jai Singh II (1688), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), and D. R. Kaprekar (1905). After him are Harish-Chandra (1923), Radhanath Sikdar (1813), J. H. C. Whitehead (1904), Bhama Srinivasan (1935), Akshay Venkatesh (1981), and Raman Parimala (1948).