Harish-Chandra

Harish-Chandra Mehrotra
Harish-Chandra Mehrotra
Born	11 October 1923; Kanpur, British India
Died	16 October 1983 (aged 60); Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of Allahabad; University of Cambridge
Known for	Harish-Chandra's c-function; Harish-Chandra's character formula; Harish-Chandra homomorphism; Harish-Chandra isomorphism; Harish-Chandra module; Harish-Chandra's regularity theorem; Harish-Chandra's Schwartz space; Harish-Chandra transform; Harish-Chandra's Ξ function;
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society; Cole Prize in Algebra (1954); Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, Physics
Institutions	Indian Institute of Science; Harvard University; Columbia University; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; Institute for Advanced Study;

Harish-Chandra Mehrotra FRS (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an Indian-American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.

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