M. Ram Murty

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M. Ram Murty
Born (1953-10-16) 16 October 1953 (age 70)
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 students

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

Biography[edit]

M. Ram Murty is the brother of mathematician V. Kumar Murty.[3]

Murty graduated with a B.Sc. from Carleton University in 1976.[4] He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supervised by Harold Stark and Dorian Goldfeld.[5] He was on the faculty of McGill University from 1982 until 1996, when he joined Queen's University. Murty is also cross-appointed as a professor of philosophy at Queen's, specialising in Indian philosophy.[6]

Research[edit]

Specializing in number theory, Murty is a researcher in the areas of modular forms, elliptic curves, and sieve theory.

Murty has Erdős number 1 and frequently collaborates with his brother, V. Kumar Murty.

Awards[edit]

Murty received the Coxeter–James Prize in 1988.[7] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1990,[8] was elected to the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 2008,[9] and became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.[10]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Cojocaru, Alina Carmen; Murty, M. Ram (2006). An introduction to sieve methods and their applications. London Mathematical Society Student Texts. Vol. 66. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-84816-4. MR 2200366..[11]

References[edit]

  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. ^ Alex Michalos (editor), The Best Teacher I ever Had, Personal Reports from Highly Productive Scholars, The University of Western Ontario, London, 2003, 290p. ISBN 0-920354-53-X.
  4. ^ Murty, M. Ram (2 June 2017). "How I Discovered Euclidean Proofs" (PDF). Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  5. ^ M. Ram Murty at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ "Faculty and Fellows at the Department of Philosophy of Queen's University". Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  7. ^ "Coxeter–James Prize". Canadian Mathematical Society. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  8. ^ "Membership". Royal Society of Canada. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
  9. ^ "INSA newsletter" (PDF). Indian National Science Academy (INSA). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
  10. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Archived 2013-08-13 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2013-02-10.
  11. ^ Thorne, Frank (2012). "Book Review: An introduction to sieve methods and their applications by Alina Carmen Cojocaru and M. Ram Murty and Opera de cribro by John Friedlander and Henryk Iwaniec". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 50 (2): 359–366. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-2012-01390-3. ISSN 0273-0979.

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