Subbaramiah Minakshisundaram
Subbaramiah Minakshisundaram (12 October 1913 - 13 August 1968), also known as Minakshi or SMS, was an Indian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations and heat kernels. In 1946, he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, America, where he met Åke Pleijel. In 1949, the two wrote a paper together called, Some properties of the eigenfunctions of the Laplace-operator on Riemannian manifolds, in which they introduced the Minakshisundaram-Pleijel zeta function.
Subbaramiah Minakshisundaram | |
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Minakshisundaram in 1940 | |
| Born | 12 October 1913 Trichur, Kerala State, India |
| Died | 12 August 1968 Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Other names | Minakshi, SMS, Jeja |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Years active | 1936 - 1968 |
| Known for | Minakshisundaram-Pleijel zeta function |
On the 13th of August 1968, Subbaramiah suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 55.
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