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Mahan Mitra
Mahan MitraNationality Indian Fields Mathematics Notable awards Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award Mahan Mitra, also known as Mahan Maharaj and Swami Vidyanathananda, is an Indian mathematician and a recipient of the 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences.[1][2].
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Early education
Mahan Mitra studied at St Xavier’s Collegiate School, Calcutta, till Class XII. He then then entered IIT Kanpur after securing a national rank of 67 in the Indian Institutes of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE). He initially chose to study electrical engineering but switched to mathematics upon realizing his love for that subject, and despite having an almost perfect GPA, and despite persuasion from family members. [3]. Switching to the study of mathematics was a turning point for his life, as he immensely enjoyed his studies in the following years. He graduated with an M.Sc. in integrated mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur in 1992 with the gold medal of his batch. [4]
Career
Mahan Mitra joined the PhD program in mathematics at UC Berkeley with Andrew Casson as his advisor.[5]. He received the Earl C. Anthony Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley in 1992-1993 and the prestigious Alfred P.Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 1996-1997 [6]. After earning a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997, he worked briefly at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1998. Spiritually inclined, he joined the Ramakrishna Math as a renunciate upon being impressed by the life and work of the Vedantic philosopher Ramakrishna Paramahansa. [7]. His initial name was Brahmachari BrahmaChaitanya. He was renamed as Swami Vidyanathananda after receiving his Saffron robe on 12th January, 2009. Swami Vidyanathananda is a monk at the order's headquarters at Belur Math and an associate Professor of mathematics at the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University at Belur Math.[8]. He has widely published and presented his research in the area of hyperbolic manifolds and "ending lamination spaces."[9] His most notable work is the Proof of existence of Cannon-Thurston Maps. This led to the resolution of the conjecture that connected limit sets of finitely generated Kleinian groups are locally connected. [10] He is also the author of Maps on boundaries of hyperbolic metric spaces . [11]
Personality
Swami Vidyanathananda, more frequently known as Mahan Maharaj to his students and colleagues, is fluent in English, Hindi and Bengali. He holds a reputation as a charismatic teacher in several areas of mathematics. He is reported to enjoy a smoke occasionally.[12] He has been quoted to say: “I am enjoying being a monk as much as I enjoy my mathematics”. [13]
References
- ^ http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/2011/ssb2011_awardees.pdf
- ^ http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/11-scientists-selected-for-shanti-swarup-bhatnagar-award/836081.html
- ^ http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JS00vMjAxMS8xMC8yOCNBcjAwMjAx
- ^ http://www.iitk.ac.in/dord/institutelecture/Mahan%20MJ%20_14-11-2011__1.pdf
- ^ http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=24444
- ^ http://www.iitk.ac.in/dord/institutelecture/Mahan%20MJ%20_14-11-2011__1.pdf
- ^ http://www.iitk.ac.in/dord/institutelecture/Mahan%20MJ%20_14-11-2011__1.pdf
- ^ http://www.rkmvu.ac.in/intro/academics/matsc_website/mahan/index
- ^ http://figments-of-the-mind.blogspot.com/2010/08/festival-of-geometry.html
- ^ http://www.iitk.ac.in/dord/institutelecture/Mahan%20MJ%20_14-11-2011__1.pdf
- ^ http://books.google.com/books/about/Maps_on_boundaries_of_hyperbolic_metric.html?id=4-2iHwAACAAJ
- ^ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Monk-of-Ramkrishna-Mission-wins-Indias-highest-math-award/articleshow/10548410.cms
- ^ http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JS00vMjAxMS8xMC8yOCNBcjAwMjAx
External links
- Gaddeswarup's blog
- http://www.rkmvu.ac.in/intro/academics/matsc_website/mahan/index
- http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/1396075793073447853uMSUBW
Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Science Komaravolu 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) • Edayyathu Mangalam Venkatarama Krishnamurthy (1978) • S. Raghavan & S. Ramanan (1979) • R. Sridharan (1980) • J. K. Ghosh (1981) • B.L. 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 & Annamalai Ramanathan (1991) • Maithili Sharan (1992) • Karmeshu & Navin Madhavprasad 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) • Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (2008) • Suresh Venapally (2009) • Mahan Mitra & Palash Kumar (2011) •
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