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'''Ramaswamy Ranga Rao''' is a prominent Indian mathematician. He finished his Ph.D. under the supervision of [[C.R. Rao]] at ISI, Calcutta. He was one of the "famous four" <ref name="Veeravalli S. Varadarajan">{{cite web|last=[[Kalyan Bidhan Sinha]] and [[B. V. Rajarama Bhat]]|title=Veeravalli S. Varadarajan|url=https://www.math.lsu.edu/cosa/6-1-00%5Bpartha%5D.pdf|publisher=[[Louisiana State University]]}}</ref> students of Rao: (the others were [[K. R. Parthasarathy (probabilist)|K. R. Parthasarathy]], [[Veeravalli S. Varadarajan]], and [[S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan]] ) in [[Indian Statistical Institute|ISI]] during 1956-1963.<br />
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Ranga Rao is now professor emeritus of mathematics at University of Illinois. He made fundamental contributions to statistics, [[Lie groups]], and [[Lie algebras]].<br />
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==Selected publications==<br />
*{{citation<br />
| last1 = Bhattacharya | first1 = R. N.<br />
| last2 = Ranga Rao | first2 = R.<br />
| mr = 0436272<br />
| publisher = John Wiley & Sons<br />
| title = Normal approximation and asymptotic expansions<br />
| year = 1976}}. Russian translation by V. V. Sazonov, Nauka, 1982, {{MR|0702344}}. 2nd ed., Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, {{MR|0855460}}. Chosen as a classic in the [[Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics|SIAM]] series on applied mathematics.<br />
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| last = Ranga Rao | first = R.<br />
| issue = 2<br />
| journal = Pacific Journal of Mathematics<br />
| mr = 1197062<br />
| pages = 335–371<br />
| title = On some explicit formulas in the theory of Weil representation<br />
| url = http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pjm/1102634748<br />
| volume = 157<br />
| year = 1993}}.<br />
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