Tag Archives: Life History of Mathematicians

Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao Biography

Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao Biography

Name: Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao FRS known as C. R. Rao Born: 10 September 1920 Hadagali, Madras Presidency, British India (now in Karnataka, India) Citizenship: United States Fields: Mathematics and Statistics Awards: Padma Vibhushan National Medal of Science (2001) S. S. Bhatnagar Prize Guy Medal (Silver 1965, Gold 2011) Known for: Cramér–Rao bound Rao–Blackwell theorem Orthogonal arrays Score test Calyampudi Radhakrishna …

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Srinivasa Ramanujan Biography For Students

Srinivasa Ramanujan Biography For Students

Name: Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar Born: 22 December 1887 Erode, Madras Presidency, British India Education: Government Arts College (no degree) Pachaiyappa’s College (no degree) Trinity College, Cambridge (Bachelor of Arts by Research, 1916) Known For: Landau–Ramanujan constant Mock theta functions Ramanujan conjecture Ramanujan prime Ramanujan–Soldner constant Ramanujan theta function Ramanujan’s sum Rogers–Ramanujan identities Ramanujan’s master theorem Ramanujan–Sato series Awards: Fellow of …

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