Prof. Srinivasacharya Raghavan is an eminent Indian

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 mathematician

Mathematician

A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

. He was born on 11 April 1934. He works in number theory

Number theory

Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers. Number theorists study prime numbers as well...

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He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Science in 1979. He is also a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences

Indian Academy of Sciences

The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore was founded by Sir C. V. Raman, and was registered as a Society on 24 April 1934. Inaugurated on 31 July 1934, it began with 65 founding fellows. The first general meeting of Fellows, held on the same day, elected Professor Raman as President, and adopted...

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He is a coauthor of Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra.

External links

• http://www.ias.ac.in/php/fell_all.php3?alpha=R
• http://www.amazon.com/Homological-Methods-Commutative-Mathematical-pamphlets/dp/0195606728

A coauthor of Algebraic Number Theory, Mathematical Pamphlets,Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,Oxford Univ.Press,1965