M. Ram Murty

Maruti Ram Pedaprolu Murty, FRSC (born 16 October 1953 in Guntur, India)[1] is an Indo-Canadian mathematician at Queen's University, where he holds a Queen's Research Chair [2] in mathematics.

M. Ram Murty
Born (1953-10-16) 16 October 1953
Guntur, India
NationalityCanadian
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
AwardsCoxeter–James Prize (1988)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsMcGill University
Queen's University
Doctoral advisorHarold Stark
Dorian M. Goldfeld
Doctoral studentsAlina Carmen Cojocaru

Career

Specializing in number theory, Murty is a researcher in the areas of modular forms, elliptic curves, and sieve theory. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1990,[3] was elected to the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 2008,[4] and has won numerous prestigious awards in mathematics, including the Coxeter–James Prize. A highly learned Indian scholar, Murty is also cross-appointed as a professor of philosophy at Queen's, specialising in Indian philosophy.

Murty graduated with a B.Sc. from Carleton University in 1976. He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supervised by Harold Stark.[5] He was on the faculty of McGill University from 1982 until 1996, when he joined Queen's.

Murty has Erdős number 1, and has collaborated with dozens of other researchers, including frequent joint work with his brother, V. Kumar Murty. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]

Selected publications
  • Cojocaru, Alina Carmen; Murty, M. Ram (2006). An introduction to sieve methods and their applications. London Mathematical Society Student Texts. 66. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-84816-4. MR 2200366..

References
  1. "Biographies of Candidates 2007" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 54 (8): 1043–1057. September 2007. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
  2. "Ram Murty's home page". Archived from the original on 21 January 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2012.
  3. "Membership". Royal Society of Canada. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
  4. "INSA newsletter" (PDF). Indian National Science Academy (INSA). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
  5. M. Ram Murty at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Archived 2013-08-13 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2013-02-10.


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