R. Ranga Rao

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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" ^[1] students of Rao: (the others were K. R. Parthasarathy, Veeravalli S. Varadarajan, and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan ) in ISI during 1956-1963.

Ranga Rao is now professor emeritus of mathematics at University of Illinois. He made fundamental contributions to statistics, Lie groups, and Lie algebras.

Selected publications

Bhattacharya, R. N.; Ranga Rao, R. (1976), Normal approximation and asymptotic expansions, John Wiley & Sons, MR 0436272. Russian translation by V. V. Sazonov, Nauka, 1982, MR0702344. 2nd ed., Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., 1986, MR0855460. Chosen as a classic in the SIAM series on applied mathematics.
Ranga Rao, R. (1993), "On some explicit formulas in the theory of Weil representation", Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 157 (2): 335–371, MR 1197062.

References

↑ Kalyan Bidhan Sinha and B. V. Rajarama Bhat. "Veeravalli S. Varadarajan" (PDF). Louisiana State University.

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[Veeravalli_S._Varadarajan-1] Kalyan Bidhan Sinha and B. V. Rajarama Bhat. "Veeravalli S. Varadarajan" (PDF). Louisiana State University.

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