Krishnaswami Alladi (born October 5, 1955) is an Indian-American mathematician who specializes in

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. He works as a professor of mathematics at the

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, and was chair of the mathematics department there from 1998 to 2008.Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2015-01-11. He is also the editor-in-chief of '' The Ramanujan Journal'' (published by

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), which he founded in 1997. Alladi was born in

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, and did his undergraduate studies at the

University of Madras The University of Madras (informally known as Madras University) is a public state university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and among the most prestigious universities in India, incorporated by an a ...

, graduating in 1975. While still an undergraduate, he wrote to Paul Erdős concerning his research on the function that maps each integer to the sum of its prime factors (with repetition); Erdős came to Madras to meet him, and their collaboration on this subject became Alladi's first paper; the two mathematicians coauthored 5 papers in total. He earned his Ph.D. from the

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in 1978 under the supervision of Ernst G. Straus. After visiting the

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, the

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, and the

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, he became an associate professor in 1981 at the

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, which had been founded by his father

Alladi Ramakrishnan Alladi Ramakrishnan (9 August 1923 – 7 June 2008) was an Indian physicist and the founder of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Matscience) in Chennai. He made contributions to stochastic process, particle physics, algebra of matrices, ...

. He moved to the University of Florida in 1986. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural

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s of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2015-01-11.

References

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