MATHS LEGEND CS SESHADRI

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MATHS LEGEND CS SESHADRI

(29 February 1932-17 July 2020)

 

A mathematics legend and human-computer of India, CONJEEVARAM SRIRANGACHARI SESHADRI (CS SESHADRI) was a brainy giant. He had to his credit many great intellectual mathematical works.

 

CS Seshadri founded the Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) as part of the SPIC Science Foundation in 1989 and was its director-emeritus until his demise. The mathematician was known for his work in algebraic geometry - the Seshadri Constant - named after him. CSS will always be remembered for his ‘Narasimhan–Seshadri theorem’ which he proved along with fellow Mathematician MS Narasimhan in 1965.

 

Kancheepuram-born Seshadri received his degree B.A. (Hons) in Mathematics from Madras University in 1953 and PhD from Bombay University in 1958. He was elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1971. Between 1953 and 1984, he worked at the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) doing some of his best works there. In 1984, he moved to Chennai to work at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and later, he set up the Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI). 

 

Awarded with the Padma Bhushan in 2009, he was elected Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2010, conferred with Honorary Degree from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris in 2013, and the Honoris Causa from University of Hyderabad. Many other awards and fellowships lined up to greet and honour him. Another brighter side of his personality was that he was also an ardent Carnatic music  lover and exponent.

 

He had a versatile personality - incredibly brainy, inquisitively curious, deeply optimistic, and keenly interested in bringing pristine innovation and creativity in the areas he focused on.

 

With his departure, a great saga of a big brain and intellectual patriotism came to an end which perhaps triggered a new beginning of another to be carried on by the generations who are sure to get motivated by his genius works, and in whom he infused a research mindset and ignited unquenchable fire to master mathematical magics and nuances.

 

He was an ocean of mathematics knowledge and Tsunami of innovative theorems, which will certainly inspire generations of aspirants. He was a prescient, clairvoyant and futurist dreamer-cum-visionary in mathematical theorems, and their niceties and subtleties.

 

 

(R.SAMPATH)

20/7/2020

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