| Names |
Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar
(S.R.) SRINIVASA VARADHAN |
| Date of Birth |
January 02, 1940 - in Madras (now Chennai),
Tamil Nadu, India. |
|
Identity |
Indian-American Mathematician, FRS |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1963: He received his
doctorate from the Indian Statistical Institute.
- 1988: He was elected to
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the
Third World Academy of Sciences.
- 1991: He was elected as
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
- 1994: He received also the
Birkhoff Prize.
- 1995: He received the
Margaret and Herman Sokol Award of the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences, New York University.
- 1996: He received the Leroy
P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research from
the American Mathematical Society, awarded for his work with
Daniel W. Stroock on diffusion processes.
- 1998: He was elected as
Fellow of the Royal Society.
- 2003: He received the
honorary degree Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris.
- 2004: He received the
honorary degree from Indian Statistical Institute in
Kolkata, India.
- 2004: He was elected as
Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
- 2007: He was awarded the
Abel Prize for his work on large deviations with M. D.
Donsker.
- 2008: He was honoured with
PADMA BHUSHAN by the Government of India.
- 2009: He was elected as
Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics.
- 2010: His awards and
honours include the National Medal of Science from President
Barack Obama, the highest honour bestowed by the United
States government on scientists, engineers and inventors.
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| Special Achievements
/ Events |
- He is known for his fundamental contributions to
probability theory and in particular for creating a unified
theory of large deviations.
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