Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri

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D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri

Born	1933 Narayanganj, India
Residence	USA
Citizenship	USA
Nationality	USA
Fields	Combinatorics
Institutions	Ohio State University
Alma mater	University of Calcutta University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Doctoral advisor	Raj Chandra Bose
Known for	BCH code Kirkman's schoolgirl problem

Dwijendra Kumar Ray-Chaudhuri (Born November 1, 1933) a Bengali-born ^[1] mathematician and a statistician is a professor emeritus at Ohio State University. He and his student R. M. Wilson together solved Kirkman's schoolgirl problem in 1968.

He is best known for his work in design theory and the theory of error-correcting codes, in which the class of BCH codes is partly named after him and his Ph.D. advisor Bose.^[2] Ray-Chaudhuri is the recipient of the Euler Medal by the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications for his career contributions to combinatorics. In 2000, a festschrift appeared on the occasion of his 65th birthday.^[3] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[4]

Ray-Chaudhuri was born in Narayanganj village in Bengal, British India. He received his M.Sc. (1956) in mathematics from the University of Calcutta and Ph.D. in combinatorics (1959) from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is married to Joyasree Ray-Chaudhuri. They have three children.

Selected publications

R. C. Bose and D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri: On a class of error correcting binary group codes. Information and Control 3(1): 68-79 (March 1960).

References

↑ His vita.
↑ [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=11328. Mathematics Genealogy Project]
↑ Codes and Designs: Proceedings of a Conference Honoring Professor Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (The Ohio State University, May 18–21, 2000). Editors: K.T. Arasu and Ákos Seress. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2002. ISBN 978-3-11-017396-3. doi:10.1515/9783110198119
↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-06-09.

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Modern	Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar Raj Chandra Bose Satyendra Nath Bose Harish-Chandra Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri Sarvadaman Chowla Gopinath Kallianpur Narendra Karmarkar Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Jayant Narlikar Vijay Kumar Patodi Ganesh Prasad C. P. Ramanujam Srinivasa Ramanujan C. R. Rao Samarendra Nath Roy Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan more

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Name	Ray-Chaudhuri, D. K.
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Short description	Indian mathematician
Date of birth	November 1, 1933
Place of birth	Calcutta, India
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