Indian-Origin Mathematician Donates $1 Million to American University
Professor Varadarajan and his wife donated $ 1 million to UCLA in honour of renowned mathematician Ramanujan. The amount will be used to form the ‘Ramanujan Visiting Professorship’ in his home department.
V.S. Varadarajan and his wife Veda donated 1 million dollars to a university in the USA. The couple decided to donate the money in honour of Srinivasa Ramanujan who was a renowned mathematician in the early 1900s.
The amount will be used to form the ‘Ramanujan Visiting Professorship’ in his home department. Varadarajan used to specialise in automorphic forms which is a critical concept in mathematics as well as representation theory. The specialisation is also used in other theories like quantum physics and elementary particles. As of now, the President of the University of California along with the UCLA Academic Senate have to decide the formation of the chair.
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UCLA’s Mathematics Department has been ranked as one of the top 10 graduate courses in 2018 in the USA by the US News and World Report. According to the university, the professor has donated more than just money with his work in the different fields of physics and mathematics.
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Professor Varadarajan is PhD in Mathematics from Calcutta University. Apart from this he also has a master's degree in Maths and Statistics which he attained from the University of Madras. Varadarajan also carries an Honourary Doctorate in Physics under his belt, which he received from the University of Genova. He has also been awarded the Lars Onsager medal for his work in mathematics which was given by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.