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Harish-Chandra

Harish-Chandra

1923 CE1983 CE · Kanpur

Harish-Chandra (né Harishchandra) FRS (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an Indian-American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.

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Kanpur (Cawnpore), on the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, was a major industrial and military town under British rule and a centre of the 1857 uprising. The Deobandi scholar Ashraf Ali Thanwi (d. 1943) taught for a time at a madrasa (Jami' al-Ulum) in Kanpur during his career.

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