Rajendra Bhatia

Rajendra Bhatia

Born	1952
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Mathematics
Doctoral advisor	K. R. Parthasarathy
Notable awards	Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award

Rajendra Bhatia (born 1952)^[1] is a distinguished scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. He studied at the University of Delhi, where he completed his BSc and MSc degrees in Mathematics, and moved to the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, where he completed his Ph.D under K. R. Parthasarathy.^[2]

Research

His research interests include major contributions to matrix inequalities, calculus of matrix functions, means of matrices, and connections between harmonic analysis, geometry and matrix analysis.^[3]

Academic life

Rajendra Bhatia founded the series Texts and Readings in Mathematics in 1992^[4] and the series Culture and History of Mathematics on the history of Indian mathematics. He has served on the editorial boards of several major international journals such as Linear Algebra and Its Applications, and the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications.

Awards

He was awarded the INSA Medal for Young Scientists in 1982. He won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Science in 1995. In 2017 he will be awarded by the Hans Schneider prize.^[5]

Books

Bhatia, Rajendra (1987). Perturbation Bounds for Matrix Eigenvalues. Longman.
Bhatia, Rajendra (1997). Matrix Analysis. Springer, Graduate Texts in Mathematics.
Bhatia, Rajendra (2007). Positive Definite Matrices. Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics.
Bhatia, Rajendra. Fourier Series. The Mathematical Association of America.

References

↑ "Conference in honour of sixtieth birthday of Rajendra Bhatia". Indian Institute of Science.
↑ Bhatia, Rajendra; Mukherjea, Kalyan K (1994), "Variation of the Unitary Part of a Matrix", SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications 15 (3): 1007–14, doi:10.1137/S0895479892243237
↑ "Rajendra Bhatia - INSA". Indian National Science Academy.
↑ "Texts and Readings in Mathematics". Hindustan Book Agency.
↑ http://www.ilasic.org/misc/hsall.html ILAS winners

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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Science

K. S. Chandrasekharan & C. R. Rao (1959) K. G. Ramanathan (1965) A. S. Gupta & C. S. Seshadri (1972) P. C. Jain & M. S. Narasimhan (1975) K. R. Parthasarathy & S. K. Trehan (1976) M. S. Raghunathan (1977) E. M. V. Krishnamurthy (1978) S. Raghavan & S. Ramanan (1979) R. Sridharan (1980) J. K. Ghosh (1981) B. L. S. Prakasa Rao & J. B. Shukla (1982) I. B. S. Passi & Phoolan Prasad (1983) S. K. Malik & R. Parthasarathy (1985) T. Parthasarathy & U. B. Tewari (1986) Raman Parimala & T. N. Shorey (1987) M. B. Banerjee & K. B. Sinha (1988) Gopal Prasad (1989) R. Balasubramanian & S. G. Dani (1990) V. B. Mehta & A. Ramanathan (1991) Maithili Sharan (1992) Karmeshu & Navin M. Singhi (1993) N. Mohan Kumar (1994) Rajendra Bhatia (1995) V. S. Sunder (1996) Subhashis Nag & T. R. Ramadas (1998) Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar (1999) Rahul Mukerjee (2000) Gadadhar Misra & T. N. Venkataramana (2001) Dipendra Prasad & S. Thangavelu (2002) Manindra Agrawal & V. Srinivas (2003) Arup Bose & Sujatha Ramdorai (2004) Probal Chaudhuri & K. H. Paranjape (2005) Vikraman Balaji & Indranil Biswas (2006) B. V. Rajarama Bhat (2007) Rama Govindarajan (2007) Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (2008) Suresh Venapally (2009) Mahan Mitra & Palash Sarkar (2011) Siva Athreya & Debashish Goswami (2012) Eknath Prabhakar Ghate (2013) Kaushal Kumar Verma (2014) K Sandeep & Ritabrata Munshi (2015)

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