Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar

Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (22 July 1930 – 2 November 2012) was an Indian American mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry. He, at the time of his death, held the Marshall Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Chair at Purdue University, and was also a professor of computer science and industrial engineering. He is known for Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory.

Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
Shreeram Abhyankar (right) with Alexander Grothendieck (left), Michael Artin in the background, at Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1970.
Born(1930-07-22)22 July 1930
Died2 November 2012(2012-11-02) (aged 82)
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Mumbai
Harvard University
Known forAbhyankar's conjecture, Abhyankar's lemma, Abhyankar–Moh theorem
AwardsChauvenet Prize (1978)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsPurdue University
Doctoral advisorOscar Zariski

His latest research was in the area of computational and algorithmic algebraic geometry.

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