Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar Biography 
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar was an Indian American mathematician who has given considerable contributions to the field of algebraic geometry. He was Marshall distinguished professor of mathematics chair at Purdue University at the time of his death in 2012. He is known for Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory and his recent researches include - computational and algorithmic algebraic geometry. He received Chauvenet Prize from the Mathematical Association of America in 1978. He has also received Docteur Honoris Causa by the University of Angers in France in 1998 and Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences as well as American Mathematical Society. He was in the Editorial board member of the Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics during his death.
Abhyankar was born in Ujjain on July 22, 1930. His father Shankar Keshav Abhyankar was a mathematics teacher. He completed B.Sc. from Royal Institute of Science in 1951, A.M. at Harvard University in 1952, and his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1955. He has worked as an associate professor of mathematics at Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University. Abhyankar was appointed the Marshall Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Purdue in 1967. He worked most on research topics like resolution of singularities, commutative algebra, local algebra and valuation theory. He has been instrumental in popularizing Jacobian conjecture.
Abhyankar also owns many published research works in his credit. Algebraic surfaces (1995), Lectures on expansion techniques in algebraic geometry (1977) and Local rings of high embedding dimension (1967) are a few among his published works. He is known most for Abhyankar's conjecture, Abhyankar–Moh theorem and Abhyankar's lemma. Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home in USA on 2 November 2012. Till his death, he was fully active with his subject – Mathematics.
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Updated: September 29, 2017
