Krishnaswami Alladi

Krishnaswami Alladi (born October 5, 1955, Thiruvananthapuram) is an Indian-American mathematician who specializes in number theory. He works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Florida, and was chair of the mathematics department there from 1998 to 2008.[1] He is also the editor-in-chief of The Ramanujan Journal (Springer-Verlag), which he founded in 1997.[1][2]

Alladi did his undergraduate studies at the University of Madras, graduating in 1975.[1] While still an undergraduate, he wrote to Paul Erdős concerning his research on the function that maps each integer to the sum of its prime factors (with repetition); Erdős came to Madras to meet him, and their collaboration on this subject became Alladi's first paper.[3][4] He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1978 under the supervision of Ernst G. Straus.[1][5] After visiting the University of Michigan, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of Hawaii, he became an associate professor in 1981 at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, which had been founded by his father Alladi Ramakrishnan. He moved to the University of Florida in 1986.[1]

In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2015-01-11.
  2. ↑ The Ramanujan Journal, Springer-Verlag, retrieved 2015-01-11.
  3. ↑ Alladi, K.; Erdős, P. (1977), "On an additive arithmetic function", Pacific Journal of Mathematics 71 (2): 275–294, doi:10.2140/pjm.1977.71.275, MR 0447086.
  4. ↑ Krishnaswami Alladi and Paul Erdős, VarahaMihira Gopu, YouTube, December 28, 2013, retrieved 2015-01-11. Video of a talk in which Alladi recounts his story about meeting Erdős.
  5. ↑ Krishnaswami Alladi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-11.