Ramachandran Balasubramanian

Born: 15 March 1951

• He is an Indian mathematician and was Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai, India.
• He is known for his work in number theory, which includes settling the final g(4) case of Waring’s problem in 1986.
• His works on moments of Riemann zeta function are highly appreciated and he was a plenary speaker from India at ICM in 2010.
• He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1980-81.
• He has received the following awards:
  • The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 1990…
  • The French government’s Ordre National du Mérite for “furthering Indo-French cooperation in the field of mathematics” in 2003.
  • The Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, in 2006.

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