Sriganesh's Academic Genealogy
nani gigantum humeris insidentes (If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants) -- Sir Isaac Newton
It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit. -- Unknown
Fun facts:
My 13 hops to Euler (Source: The Mathematics Genealogy Project) | My Erdős No = 3
| With my teachers at NUS (with Profs Limsoon Wong, Hon Wai Leong and Anthony Tung)
| With Mark Ragan
| With Phillip A Sharp (Nobel Laureate)
My 13 hops to Euler:
- Leonhard Euler (PhD 1726, Universität Basel)
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"Oiler". Swiss mathematician and physicist. Significant contributions in calculus and graph theory. Euler's theorem. Also renowned for work in astronomy, mechanics, fluid dynamics and optics.
- Joseph Louis Lagrange (BA 1754, Università di Torino)
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Significant contrubutions in calculus, group theory, number theory and mechanics. Euler-Lagrange equations and Lagrangian mechanics.
- Simeon Denis Poisson (PhD 1800, École Polytechnique) | Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (PhD 1795, École Normale Supérieure)
- Poisson. French mathematician and physicist. Significant contributions in calculus, probability theory and mechanics.
- Fourier. French mathematician and physicist. Fourier series and Fourier transform.
- Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet (PhD 1827, Universität Bonn)
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German mathematician. Significant contributions in number theory. Dirichlet's theorems and Dirichlet's principle.
- Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (PhD 1853, Universität Berlin)
- German mathematician. Significant contributions in number theory, algebra, differential geometry and classical mechanics. Dini-Lipschitz criterion.
- C. Felix (Christian) Klein (PhD 1868, Universität Bonn)
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German mathematician. Significant contributions in group theory and geometry.
- C. L. Ferdinand (Carl Louis) Lindemann (PhD 1873, Universität Erlangen)
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German mathematician. Known for his proof that pi is a transcendental number.
- David Hilbert (PhD 1885, Universität Königsberg)
- German mathematician. One of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert Spaces. 1900 presentation of Hilbert's 23 unsolved problems.
- Erhard Schmidt (PhD 1905, Universität Göttingen)
- German mathematician, known for contributions to functional analysis. Gram-Schmidt process.
- Michael Golomb (PhD 1933, Universität Berlin)
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American mathematician. Known for normed vector spaces and numerical analysis.
- Dean Norman Arden (PhD 1957, Purdue University)
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American mathematician. Known for his book on theory of finite machines.
- C. L. (Chung Laung) Liu (PhD 1962, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Taiwanese-American mathematician and computer scientist. Known for books on discrete mathematics and combinatorial optimization. 2011 Phil Kaufman Award.
- Hon Wai Leong (PhD 1986, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Sriganesh Srihari (PhD 2012, National University of Singapore)
With:
Phillip A Sharp, Nobel Laureate
| Mark Ragan (at IMB, UQ)
| My Teachers (at SoC Staff Club, NUS)
| Prof Hiroaki Kitano (at NUS)
| Prof Pandu Rangan (at NUS)
| Prof Shaojie Zhang (at UCF Florida)
| Prof Chew Lim Tan (at ICPR Florida)
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