Rajendra Bhatia (born 1952) is an Indian mathematician, author, and educator. He is currently a professor of mathematics at

Ashoka University Ashoka University is a philanthropy-driven private university located in the National Capital Region (NCR), India, focusing on a liberal education in the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Sciences. The university is on a mission to bu ...

located in Sonipat, Haryana ,India.

Education

He studied at the

University of Delhi Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...

, where he completed his BSc degree in

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

and MSc degree in mathematics, and moved to the

Indian Statistical Institute Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is a higher education and research institute which is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the 1959 act of the Indian parliament. It grew out of the Statistical Laboratory set up by Prasanta ...

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1982 under the probabilist K. R. Parthasarathy.

Research

Bhatia's research interests include matrix inequalities, calculus of

matrix function In mathematics, every analytic function can be used for defining a matrix function that maps square matrices with complex entries to square matrices of the same size. This is used for defining the exponential of a matrix, which is involved in th ...

s, means of matrices, and connections between harmonic analysis, geometry and matrix analysis. 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 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 The ''SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications'' (until 1989: ''SIAM Journal on Algebraic and Discrete Methods'') is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering matrix analysis and its applications. The relevant applications include sign ...

Awards

Bhatia was awarded the

INSA The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) is a non-profit, nonpartisan 501(c)(6) professional organization based in Arlington Virginia for public and private sector members of the United States Intelligence Community. History ...

Medal for Young Scientists in 1982. He won the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, ...

in Mathematical Science in 1995. In 2017 he was awarded the

Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra The Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra is awarded every three years by the International Linear Algebra Society. It recognizes research, contributions, and achievements at the highest level of linear algebra and was first awarded in 1993. It may ...

.http://www.ilasic.org/misc/hsall.html ILAS winners

Books

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References

External links

A Brief History of Fourier Series by Prof. Rajendra Bhatia
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bhatia, Rajendra 1952 births Living people 20th-century Indian mathematicians 21st-century Indian mathematicians Indian Statistical Institute alumni Indian Statistical Institute faculty Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science