Inder Bir Singh Passi (20 August 1939 – 2 October 2021) was an Indian
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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who specialised in
algebra
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IBS Passi was the former dean of university instructions (DUI) and professor emeritus of the department of mathematics at Panjab University. He was awarded in 1983 the
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
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, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category. Passi was a noted
group-theorist in India, had made significant contribution to certain aspects of
theory of groups specially to the study of
group ring
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s. His results on the dimension subgroups, augmentation powers in group rings, and related problems have received wide recognition. His 1979 monograph
summarizing the state of the subject is a basic reference source.
References
External links
Indian National Science Academy database
1939 births
2021 deaths
Presidents of the Indian Mathematical Society
20th-century Indian mathematicians
Indian group theorists
Panjab University
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science
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