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Harish-Chandra - Wikipedia!

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Born

11 October 1923
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Died

16 October 1983
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Summary

Harish-Chandra was an Indian-born mathematician and physicist who worked mainly in America and did fundamental work in representation theory, especially on Lie groups.

Biography

Harish-Chandra's mother was Satyagati Seth, who was the daughter of the lawyer Ram Sanehi Seth, and his father was Chandrakishore who was a civil engineer.

Harish-Chandra Lectures series - Google Sites

Chandrakishore had been educated at the Thomason Engineering College at Roorkee, then entered the Indian Service of Engineers and the first part of his career was [14]:-

... spent in the field, usually on horseback, inspecting and maintaining the dikes of the extensive network of canals in the northern plains.

Since Harish-Chandra's father spent most of his time travelling around the country inspecting canals, Harish-Chandra spent most of his childhood living in his maternal grandfather's home in Kanpur.

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