Rajendra Bhatia

Rajendra Bhatia
Born1952
NationalityIndian
Alma materDelhi University Indian Statistical Institute
ChildrenGautam Bhatia
AwardsShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award

ILAS Hans Schneider prize

INSA Medal for Young Scientist
Scientific career
FieldsLinear Algebra

Hilbert Space

Mathematics
InstitutionsAshoka University
Doctoral advisorK. R. Parthasarathy

Rajendra Bhatia (born 1952)[1] is an Indian mathematician, author, and educator. He is currently a professor of mathematics at Ashoka University located in Sonipat, Haryana, India.[2]

Education

He studied at the University of Delhi, where he completed his BSc degree in physics and MSc degree in mathematics, and moved to the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1982 under the probabilist K. R. Parthasarathy.[3]

Research

Bhatia's research interests include matrix inequalities, calculus of matrix functions, means of matrices, and connections between harmonic analysis, geometry and matrix analysis.[4]

He is one of the eponyms of the Bhatia–Davis inequality.

Academic life

Rajendra Bhatia founded the series Texts and Readings in Mathematics in 1992[5] and the series Culture and History of Mathematics on the history of Indian mathematics. He has served on the editorial boards of several major international journals such as Linear Algebra and Its Applications, and the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications.

Awards

Bhatia was awarded the INSA Medal for Young Scientists in 1982.[6] He won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Science in 1995.[7] In 2017 he was awarded the Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra.[8]

Books

  • Bhatia, Rajendra (1987). Perturbation Bounds for Matrix Eigenvalues. Longman.
  • Bhatia, Rajendra (1997). Matrix Analysis. Springer, Graduate Texts in Mathematics.
  • Bhatia, Rajendra (2007). Positive Definite Matrices. Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics.
  • Bhatia, Rajendra. Fourier Series. The Mathematical Association of America.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Conference in honour of sixtieth birthday of Rajendra Bhatia". Indian Institute of Science.
  2. ^ University, Ashoka. "Faculty/Staff | Ashoka University". Ashoka University. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  3. ^ Bhatia, Rajendra; Mukherjea, Kalyan K (1994), "Variation of the Unitary Part of a Matrix", SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 15 (3): 1007–14, doi:10.1137/S0895479892243237
  4. ^ "Rajendra Bhatia - INSA". Indian National Science Academy. Archived from the original on 12 August 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ^ "Texts and Readings in Mathematics". Hindustan Book Agency.
  6. ^ "Indian National Science Academy". insaindia.res.in. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  7. ^ "Awardee Details: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize". ssbprize.gov.in. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  8. ^ http://www.ilasic.org/misc/hsall.html ILAS winners