Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan

Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan (born 1932) is an eminent Indian mathematician. He is well known along with C S Seshadri for their workentitled "Stable and unitary vector bundles on a compact Riemann surface".

Narasimhan did his undergraduate studies at Loyola College, Madras, where he was taught byFr Racine. Fr Racine had studied with the famous French mathematicians Elie Cartan and Jacques Hadamard, and connected his students with the latest developments in modern mathematics. Among his other students who achieved eminence we may count Minakshisundaram, K.G. Ramanathan, C.S. Seshadri, Raghavan Narasimhan, and C.P. Ramanujam.

He then went to the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, for graduate studies. He obtained his PhD from Bombay University in 1960 under the guidance of K.Chandrasekharan.

Curriculum vitae

Degrees and posts held

*Fellow of the Royal Society, London
*Head, Mathematics Group of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (1992-99)
*Honorary Fellow, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore Centre.

Visiting professorships

Awards and felicitations

Awards:
* Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1975)
* Third World Academy Award for Mathematics (1987)
* Padma Bhushan (1990)
* King Faisal International Prize for Science, 2006 (jointly with Simon Donaldson, Imperial College).

Research Interests

Contributions

References

*cite journal
author = Narasimhan, M. S.; Seshadri, C. S.
title = Stable and unitary vector bundles on a compact Riemann surface
journal = Annals of Mathematics
volume = 82
year = 1965
pages = 540–567
id = MathSciNet | id = 0184252
url = http://www.jstor.org/view/0003486x/di961808/96p0050x/0
doi = 10.2307/1970710
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* [http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/aug252003/526.pdf Artless innocents and ivory-tower sophisticates: Some personalities on the Indian mathematical scene] - M.S. Raghunathan
* [http://www.ams.org/notices/200603/comm-faisal.pdf Donaldson and Narasimhan Receive 2006 King Faisal Prize] - Notices of the AMS, March 2006, Volume 53, Number 3.