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Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar

American mathematician (1930–2012)

Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar

Shreeram Abhyankar (right) with Alexander Grothendieck (left), Michael Artin in the background, at Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1970.

Born(1930-07-22)22 July 1930

Ujjain, India

Died2 November 2012(2012-11-02) (aged 82)

West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.

CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Mumbai
Harvard University
Known forAbhyankar's conjecture, Abhyankar's lemma, Abhyankar–Moh theorem
AwardsChauvenet Prize (1978)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsPurdue University
Doctoral advisorOscar Zariski

Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (22 July 1930 – 2 November 2012)[1][2] was an Indian Americanmathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry.

At the time of his death, he held the Marshall Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Chair at Purdue University, and was Remembering Remembering Shreeram Shreeram S. S. Abhyankar ... QUFA