V. S. Sunder

Professor Vaikalathur Shankar Sunder (born 6 April 1952) is an Indian mathematician who specialises in subfactors, operator algebras and functional analysis in general.

Vaikalathur Shankar Sunder
Born6 April 1952
NationalityIndia
Alma materIIT Madras, Indiana University
AwardsShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Scientific career
FieldsSubfactors, operator algebras, functional analysis
InstitutionsIndian Statistical Institute, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Doctoral advisorPaul Halmos

In 1996, he was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category.

Sunder is one of the first Indian operator algebraists. In addition to publishing about sixty papers, he has written six books including at least three monographs at the graduate level or higher on von Neumann algebras. One of the books was co-authored with Vaughan Jones, an operator algebraist, who has received the Fields Medal.[1][2]

References
  1. Sukumar Mallick; Saguna Dewan; S C Dhawan (1999). Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners (1958–1998) (PDF). New Delhi: Human Rsource Development Group, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research. p. 118.
  2. Professor Sunder at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.


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