A Mathematician by choice: Conversations with Prof. M S Narasimhan:  Episode One

Описание: 'Archival Series: Indian Mathematicians at Work'
A Mathematician by choice: Conversations with Prof. M S Narasimhan 

Professor M S Narasimhan  speaks to Professor M S Raghunathan and Professor Gadadhar Misra on getting initiated into mathematics, Rev. Fr. Racine as his teacher in Loyola College,  studying and working at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, deputation  in France, research & collaborations with  C S Seshadri, S Ramanan, Harder, K Okamoto.  personal reminisces on K Chandrasekharan, K G Ramanathan, Homi Bhabha, his experience as the head the mathematics group at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Italy

While the bulk of his scientific contributions lies in the field of moduli of vector bundles, Professor Narasimhan has made important excursions into other fields such as partial differential equations, mathematical physics and representation theory. 

His characterization of real analytic functions via Cauchy type inequalities, obtained in collaboration with Kotake, has been generalized in several directions by other eminent mathematicians. His joint work with S. Ramanan, on the proof of the existence of universal connections, generalizes well known results on the existence of universal bundles in topology. His pioneering work, done jointly with C. S. Seshadri, on unitary and stable bundles, has had important applications in Gauge Theory and Conformal Field Theory in Mathematical Physics. He has obtained several important and beautiful results in the field of moduli of vector bundles, some of which were obtained jointly with S. Ramanan, Harder and others. His work on Representation Theory, done jointly with K. Okamoto, is considered to be the first major breakthrough in the realization of a conjecture of Langlands. 

Professor Narasimhan is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy and the National Academy of Sciences, India. He was elected Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 1988 and of the Royal Society, London, in 1996. 

Amongst the awards he has won are included the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1975), the Third World Academy Award for Mathematics (1987) and the King Faisal International Prize for Science (2006). The Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan (1990) and the French Government made him Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite.