V. Kumar Murty

Vijaya Kumar Murty FRSC (born 20 May 1956) is an Indo-Canadian mathematician working in number theory.

Kumar Murty

Biography

Murty obtained his BSc in 1977 from Carleton University and his PhD in mathematics in 1982 from Harvard University under John Tate.

He and his brother, M. Ram Murty, have written more than 20 joint papers.[1] In a book edited by Alex Michalos,[2] there is a description of how the Murty brothers learned mathematics in their teens.

Awards

Murty received the Coxeter–James Prize in 1991 from the Canadian Mathematical Society.[3] He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1995.[4] In 1996, he, along with his brother, M. Ram Murty, received the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize[5] for the book "Non-vanishing of L-functions and their applications."[6]

In 2018, the Canadian Mathematical Society listed him in their inaugural class of fellows.[7]

References
  1. List of papers at Mathematical Reviews American Mathematical Society.
  2. 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.
  3. Coxeter-James Prize Coxeter-James Prize, Canadian Mathematical Society.
  4. Search page on Royal Society Home Page.
  5. The Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize Retrieved 2019-01-02.
  6. M. Ram Murty and V. Kumar Murty (1996). Non-vanishing of L-functions. Springer Science & Business Media/Birkhäuser. p. 196. ISBN 978-3-0348-0273-4.
  7. Canadian Mathematical Society Inaugural Class of Fellows, Canadian Mathematical Society, December 7, 2018
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