Tarlok Nath Shorey

Tarlok Nath Shorey
Born 30 October 1945
Nationality India
Fields Theory of numbers
Institutions IIT Bombay, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Alma mater Panjab University, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Doctoral advisor K Ramachandra
Notable awards Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology

Tarlok Nath Shorey (T.N. Shorey) is an Indian mathematician who specialises in theory of numbers. He is currently a distinguished professor in the department of mathematics at IIT Bombay. Previously, he worked at TIFR. T. N. He was awarded in 1987 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category. Shorey has done significant work on transcendental number theory, in particular best estimates for linear forms in logarithms of algebraic numbers. He has obtained some new applications of Baker’s method to Diophantine equations and Ramanujan’s T-function.[1] Shorey's contribution to irreducibility of Laguerre polynomials is extensive.[2] He has published several papers with Robert Tijdeman. Having also published a paper with Paul Erdős in 1972, his Erdős number is '1'.

Selected publications

References

  1. Sukumar Mallick, Saguna Dewan, S C Dhawan (1999). Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners(1958 - 1998). New Delhi: Human Rsource Development Group, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research. p. 118.
  2. Filaseta, Michael; Carrie Finch; J Russell Leidy (2008). "T. N. Shorey's Influence in the Theory of Irreducible Polynomials". Diophantine Equations (ed. N. Saradha) (New Delhi: Narosa Publ. House).

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