HARISH  CHANDRA

CONTRIBUTION TO MATHEMATICS:

                The word mathematics is like a dangerous monster for some people. Many of the students who consider mathematics as their enemy would have thought that the subject mathematics should never have existed. But in this world of billions of population, there are many who not only love mathematics but take it up as their career.

Harish Chandra was one among such people in the olden times who was a well-known mathematician. Not only did he like the subject mathematics, but also made significant contributions to the world of mathematics which is undoubtedly praiseworthy. Harish Chandra was born on 11th of October, 1923 in Kanpur. He belonged to an upper middle class family which was a benefit to the educational career of Harish Chandra.

    Harish Chandra researched on “Semi Simple Lie Groups”. This was indeed his best research. He explained about the lie algebra where the ideal of the number were 0 and itself. Other achievements of Harish Chandra include Weyl’s character formula analogue, Plancherel measure for semi simple groups, philosophy of cusp forms, etc. he also worked at Neumann Professor in 1968 at the Institute of Advanced Study.

               Harish Chandra was a great mathematician of the twentieth century. His achievements and contributions were praiseworthy. He was honoured with AMS Cole Prize in 1954 for his outstanding work ‘Representations of Semi Simple Lie algebras and groups’. He was the Fellow of the Royal Society. He was given the Ramanujan Medal in 1974 for his wonderful works in mathematics. Not only in India, but Harish Chandra’s achievements were honoured outside India as well. He was given an honorary degree in the Yale University. Harish Chandra Research Institute (HRI) was started by the Government of India in the honour of his contributions in the field of mathematics.