03-28-2007, 07:32 PM
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Maths `Nobel` for India-born professor
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Oslo, March 28: India-born Srinivasa S R Varadhan has been named winner of the Norwegian Abel Prize, known as the Nobel Prize for mathematics.
Varadhan was cited for his "fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for a unified theory of large deviations", the jury said.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Varadhan, born in 1940 in Chennai, has since 1963 worked at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, where he is a professor of mathematics and currently Frank J Gould Professor of Science. He is now a US citizen. "I come from south India, and Ramanujan`s name is extremely well known there. Even in high school our teachers talked about him, as somebody from a different generation of course, but who reached exalted heights. He was a role model for me," Varadhan said.
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Maths `Nobel` for India-born professor
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Oslo, March 28: India-born Srinivasa S R Varadhan has been named winner of the Norwegian Abel Prize, known as the Nobel Prize for mathematics.
Varadhan was cited for his "fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for a unified theory of large deviations", the jury said.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Varadhan, born in 1940 in Chennai, has since 1963 worked at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, where he is a professor of mathematics and currently Frank J Gould Professor of Science. He is now a US citizen. "I come from south India, and Ramanujan`s name is extremely well known there. Even in high school our teachers talked about him, as somebody from a different generation of course, but who reached exalted heights. He was a role model for me," Varadhan said.
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