Vikram Bhagvandas Mehta (August 15, 1946 – June 4, 2014) was an Indian mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and vector bundles. Together with Annamalai Ramanathan he introduced the notion of Frobenius split varieties, which led to the solution of several problems about Schubert varieties. He is also known to have worked, from the 2000s onward, on the

fundamental group scheme In mathematics, the fundamental group scheme is a group scheme canonically attached to a scheme over a Dedekind scheme (e.g. the spectrum of a field or the spectrum of a discrete valuation ring). It is a generalisation of the étale fundamental g ...

. It was precisely in the year 2002 when he and Subramanian published a proof of a conjecture by Madhav V. NoriM. V. Nori ''On the Representations of the Fundamental Group'', Compositio Mathematica, Vol. 33, Fasc. 1, (1976), p. 29-42 that brought back into the limelight the theory of an object that until then had met with little success.V. B. Mehta, S. Subramanian ''On the Fundamental Group Scheme'', Inventiones mathematicae, 148, 143-150 (2002)

Awards

The

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research ( IAST: ''vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada''), abbreviated as CSIR, was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the ...

awarded him 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 1991 for his work in algebraic geometry.

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Vikram Bhagvandas Mehta
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