Back سرينيفاسا فارادهان Arabic سرينيفاسا فراضان ARZ Сатхамангалам Раві Срыніваса Варадхан Byelorussian Sathamangalam R. Srinivasa Varadhan Breton S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan Catalan Srinivasa Varadhan Czech S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan German Σρινιβάσα Βαραντάν Greek Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan Esperanto Srinivasa Varadhan Spanish
Srinivasa
Varadhan | |
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 Srinivasa Varadhan at the 1st Heidelberg Laureate Forum in September 2013 | |
| Born | 2 January 1940 |
| Alma mater | Presidency College, Chennai Indian Statistical Institute |
| Known for | Martingale problems; Large deviation theory |
| Awards | Padma Vibhushan (2023) National Medal of Science (2010) Padma Bhushan (2008) Abel Prize (2007) Steele Prize (1996) Birkhoff Prize (1994) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (New York University) |
| Doctoral advisor | C R Rao |
| Doctoral students | Peter Friz Jeremy Quastel Fraydoun Rezakhanlou |
Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan, FRS (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.[1] 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.[2] In the year 2007, he became the first Asian to win the Abel Prize.[3][4]
- ^ Ramachandran, R. (7–20 April 2007). "Science of chance". Frontline. India. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007.
- ^ Varadhan, S. R. Srinivasa (2020). Essentials of integration theory for analysis. Springer, [2020] ©2020.
- ^ "2007: Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan | The Abel Prize". abelprize.no.
- ^ "Indian wins Norway's Abel Prize for Mathematics". Hindustan Times. 23 March 2007.