LIVING FELLOW MATHEMATICIANS AND OFFICERS

1 LIVING FELLOW MATHEMATICIANS AND OFFICERS (Born up to 5.11.1941 – author’s actual date of birth) Compiled by Hon. Col. NCC Prof. Dr. RAM BILAS MISRA, Ex Vice-Chancellor, Avadh University, Ayodhya (India). § 1. Alumni of Dept. of Maths. & Astronomy, Lucknow University, Lucknow (India) up to 1962 & before Sr. No. Name 1. Hari Mohan Shrivastava (Mrs.) Kamala Devi Singh Dinesh Chandra 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Kewal Krishna Mathur Jang Bahadur Shukla Satya Narain Shrivastava Arun Varma Designation held Prof. Dr. Address Remark Author’s teacher Prof. Dr./HoD Prof. Dr. Retd., Maths. & Astronomy, L.U.; Station Rd., Lko. (India) Retd., Maths. & Astronomy, L.U.; Nirala Nagar, Lucknow ”; Babuganj, Lucknow ” Gomti Nagar Extn., Lucknow Author’s teacher Prof. Dr./HoD Prof. Dr. I.I.T., Kanpur (India) ” ” Triloki Nath / Tariq Nazer Srivastava Ram Prasad Shrivastava Professor Emeritus 10. Krishna Mohan Garg ” 11. Ram Bilas Misra (author) 12. Gokeran Prasad 1) Dikshit 13. Narendra Kumar Mishra 1) 9. Dept. of Maths., L.U., Nishatganj, Lko. (India) Retd., Dept. of Maths., IIT, Roorkee, Uttarakhand; arunreeta.verma@gmail.com Concordia Univ., Toronto (Canada) Dept. of Appld. Maths. & Stats., S.B. Univ., Stony Brook (USA) ram.srivastav@stonybrook.edu SUNY, Buffalo (USA) Prof. Dr. / Retd. HoD, Maths., APS Univ., 7th senior ex VC, Rewa (M.P.); most in Avadh Univ. Res.: 380 A, Gomti Nagar Extn., Lucknow Sector 1, Lucknow (India) Prof. Dr. Retd., HoD, Maths., L.U.; Dandahia Bazar, Lucknow (India) Dr. / HoD Retd., JN P-G College, Lucknow (India) 2 1) 14. Vijay Kumar 1) Prof. Dr. 15. ” 16. Jagadish Prasad (Shrivastava) 1) Ravindra Nath Kalia1) 17. Ram Ujagir Verma 1) ” 18. ” / HoD 19. Narendra Dev Shukla 1) Ashok Saxena 1) 20. Hare Ram Singh 1) Retd., MNNIT, Prayagraj (India) Retd., UCLA, California (USA) ” Prof. Dr. ” / HoD, Acting VC Retd. St. Cloud State Univ., St. Cloud, MN (USA) Retd. Florida State Univ., Orlando, Fl. (USA) Retd., Stats. Dept., L.U., Lucknow (India) ” Retd., Maths. & Stats., Ravi Shankar Univ., Raipur, Chhattisgarh (India) Contemporary of the author (graduated in 1962). § 2. Surviving senior most Differential Geometers 2.1. In Lucknow: 1. Prof. Dr. Mrs. K.D. Singh, Retd. HoD, Maths. & Astronomy, L.U., Lucknow; 2. Author, ex VC, Avadh University, Ayodhya (India); 2.2. In Uttar Pradesh / India: 1. Prof. Dr. Mrs. K.D. Singh, Retd. HoD, Maths. & Astronomy, L.U., Lucknow; 2. Prof. Dr. Uday Pal Singh, Retd., HoD, DDU Univ., ex VC, VBSPU, Jaunpur, U.P.; 3. Author ex VC, Avadh University, Ayodhya (India); 2.2. In the world: Sr. No. Name 1. (Mrs.) Kamala Devi Singh Uday Pal Singh, 2. 3. Designation held Prof. Dr./HoD ” Prof. Dr. 4. Triloki Nath / Tariq Nazer Srivastava Krishna Lal Duggal 5. Radu Miron ” ” Address Retd., Dept. of Maths. & Astronomy, L.U., Lucknow Retd., HoD, DDU Univ., ex VC, VBSPU, Jaunpur, U.P. Concordia Univ., Toronto (Canada) Emeritus Prof., UoWindsor, Windsor, Quebec (Canada); yq8@uwindsor.ca Retd., UoIasi, Iasi (Romania) Remark 3 6. 7. 8. Richard Sheldon Palais Tom Kawaguchi ” Ram Bilas Misra (author) 2) Prof. Dr./ HoD, ex VC ” Retd., Maths., UoCalifornia, Irvine, Cal. (USA) Editor, Tensor Journal of Japan, Chigasaki (Japan) 380 A, Gomti Nagar Extn., Sector 1, Lucknow (India) 9. 10. § 3. Living Mathematicians (accounted upto those born on 5.11.1941 or before) 3.1. In India (Cf. §§ 1 - 2): Additional ones Sr. No. Name 1. Ram Prasad Bambah Rank held (Designation) Prof. Dr. 2. Rajendra Gupta ” 3. Ghanshyam Pandey ” 4. Lal Mani Tripathi ” 5. Narain Das Mehrotra ” 6. Radha Krishna Lanka ” 7. Nimba Krishna Thakare ” 8. Gokul Chand Sharma ” 9. Krishna Kant Jha 10. Gunadhar Das ” / ex Acting VC ” 11. Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan Prof., Dr. / FRS 12. Rishi Ram Sharma 1) ” Address Remark Ex HoD, Maths. & VC, 97 yrs. old Panjab Univ., Chandigarh (India) Retd. HoD, Maths., UoAlld.; M.Sc. (Phys.), Settled in NOIDA, U.P. M.Sc. (India) (Maths.) Retd., HoD, Maths., Vikram Univ.; 105, Sant Nagar, Ujjain, M.P. (India) Retd., Maths., BHU, Varanasi (India) Retd., Maths., MNNIT, Prayagraj (India) Retd. HoD, Maths., Shivaji Univ., Kolhapur; Settled in Pune, MS (India) Ex HoD, Maths., Pune Univ.; Held Founder VC, North Lokmanya Maharashtra Univ., Jalgaon, Tilak Chair 1990-96 Retd., HoD, Maths., Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Univ., Agra (India) Retd., HoD, Maths., Patna Univ., Patna (India) Retd., HoD, Maths., Utkal Univ., BBSR (Orissa) Retd. Prof. of Eminence & Chairman, Maths., TIFR; Head, National Centre for Maths., Mumbai Retd., Maths., I.I.T., BHU, 4 13. ” 16. Ram Suranjan Dhar Dubey 1) Uma Shankar Gupta 1) Narendra Pratap Singh 1) K.P.R. Shastri 1) Prof. Dr. 17. T.M. Karade 1) ” ex VC 14. 15. 2) Varanasi; Srijan Vihar Colony, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow Retd., Maths., UoAlld. ” ” Retd., Maths., I.I.T., Roorkee, Uttarakhand Retd., Govt. Sci. College, Rewa, (M.P.), India Retd., Maths., Andhra Univ.; 8-28-8/1 Tamil St., China Waltair, Visakhapatnam Retd. HoD, Maths., RTM Univ., Nagpur Conclusively, the author is privileged to be: (i) The 2nd senior most Differential Geometer (after Prof. Mrs. K.D. Singh) in Lucknow; (ii) 7th senior most mathematician (after Professors H.M. Shrivastava, K.D. Singh, Dinesh Chandra, Satya Narain Shrivastava, K.K. Mathur & Arun Kumar) in Lucknow; (iii) 3rd senior most Diff. Geometer (after Professors K.D. Singh, Lucknow and U.P. Singh, Gorakhpur in U.P. / India; (iv) 8th senior most Differential Geometer in the world (cf. Sub-section 2.2); (v) 13th senior most mathematician (after Professors H.M. Shrivastava, K.D. Singh, Dinesh Chandra, S.N. Shrivastava, J.B. Shukla - Kanpur, U.P. Singh - Gorakhpur, Rajendra Gupta - Prayagraj, K.K. Mathur - Lucknow, Arun Kumar - Lucknow, L.M. Tripathi - BHU, N.D. Mehrotra - PYG, G.C. Sharma - Agra in U.P.; (vi) 21st senior most mathematician (after all above 12 in U.P. + R.P. Bambah Chandigarh, G.S. Pandey - Ujjain, R.K. Bansal - Jaipur, N.K. Thakare - MS, Radhakrishna Lanka – Pune, K.K. Jha – Patna, Gunadhar Das – BBSR, M.S. Raghunathan - TIFR). § 4. Officers alumni of Dept. of Maths. & Astronomy, L.U., Lucknow (India) up to 1962 & before Sr. No. Name Rank/Cadre held 1. Sh. Syed Ali Tahir Rizvi 2. Sh. Uma Shankar U.P. PCS (Topper), 1963; IAS (Topper), 1965 U.P. PCS Address Remark Retd. Director, India M.Sc. Investment Centre, Dubai; (Maths.), Res.: Gomti Nagar, 1959 Lucknow Retd. I.G., Police, U.P.; M.A. (Maths.), 5 Bajpai 3. 4. Sh. Shambhu Pratap Singh Rathore Sh. Lalit Mohan Goyal (Police), 1963; Promoted to IPS rank, 1980 IPS, 1964; Retd. D-G, Police (Haryana) IAS, 1966 Shri Ram Chandra Spiritual Mission, Opp. IIM, Lucknow 1960 / Topper M.Sc. (Maths.), 1961 Retd. as Principal Secy., M.Sc. (Maths.), Haryana Govt. on 1962 / 3rd 31.5.2003 Position § 5. Profiles of some pioneers 4.1. Prof. Dr. Radu Miron, born at Codăesti in Vaslui County (Romania) on 3.10.1927, retd., Iasi University, Iasi (Romania) (Courtesy: Professors Mihai Anastasiei, Constantin Udrişte and Vladimir Balan) The academic community from Iaşi together with the Romanian mathematicians, as well as many geometers around the world will enjoy celebrating in 2017 the 90th birth anniversary of Academician Prof. Radu Miron. His vast and compact scholarly work has brought him international recognition and has established him as a leader of the Romanian school of geometry. A remarkable gifted intellectual, endowed with the grace of speaking, he has left an undeniable mark upon numerous generations of mathematics teachers. Being highly concerned with teaching geometry at all levels, he wrote books for pupils and students, as well as monographs having a high scientific level meant for researchers. He supervised 30 Ph. D. students, 13 of which were from abroad: Japan, Italy, Hungary, Vietnam. He attended the courses of the primary school in his native village. Then he finished his high school studies at the technical school in Bîrlad. In 1948 he enrolled at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the "Al. I. Cuza" University in Iaşi. Here he drew the attention of the famous and exigent teaching staff, so that, at the beginning of the 3-rd year he was appointed instructor and shortly afterwards he was promoted to assistantship. A year after his graduation from the faculty he begin preparing his Doctor's Degree - the chosen specialty being Mechanics at the Mathematical Institute of the Romanian Academy, the Iaşi branch, his main advisor being academician M. Haimovici. Thus he began the scholarly activity by which he will make his mark as an extremely valuable mathematician. Steady and full of energy, he has gone through the stages of a remarkable scientific and didactic career. In 1956 he was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and senior researcher at the Mathematical Institute of the Academy. The following year, he received his Ph.D. in the field of Physics and Mathematics, and in 1963 he was Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of the University of Iaşi and the head of a department at the Mathematical Institute of the Academy. The same year he was awarded the Ministry of Education prize for his scholarly work. In 1965 he became full Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics. Between 1972 and 1976 he was the dean of the Faculty of Mathematics. Since 1972, he has been scholarly advisor for Ph.D. Thesis. As the head of the Department of Geometry for several years and member on the faculty executive council, he has brought a decisive contribution to the proper carrying out of the activity in the faculty, as well as to the progress of the Romanian school of Geometry. In 1991 he was elected 6 as member of the Romanian Academy, the highest recognition which a scholar may receive in our country. He retired from Faculty of Mathematics in 1997, receiving the homage of his colleagues and former students, but he continued to act as Consulting Professor in Faculty of Mathematics, as Full Professor at the private university "P. Andrei" from Iaşi, and as a researcher at the Mathematical Institute "O. Mayer" of the Romanian Academy. He was also involved in the political and social life at the level of the Iaşi County. Professor Miron began his scientific activity at the great school of the Iaşi Mathematics Seminar, in a period when its founders, the Academicians Al. Myller and O. Mayer, were still active. His original scholarly work falls within three main fields: differential geometry, applications of differential geometry, the basic elements of geometry and algebra. Reviewing the almost three hundred titles that have been published among them being 35 textbooks, books and monographs, one can clearly perceive the coordinates of evolution of the scientific and didactic thinking of Prof. Miron. He started with the study of the geometrization of the non-holonomic mechanical systems with scleronomic links and solved in his Ph. D. Thesis a problem that has been raised by E. Cartan. In connection with this, he studied, as well, non-holonomic manifolds. In 1960 Prof. Miron’s research turned to a new trend. He studied the so-called Myller configurations. The results were presented in a monograph that received the Gh. Tzitzeica prize of the Romanian Academy. Then he brought significant contribution to the theory of Weyl, Norden and conformal symplectic spaces. The researches in Finslerian geometry and its generalizations that Prof. Miron has introduced in Romania have brought him many satisfactions and successes. In 1974 he comes to Finsler spaces with an outstanding contribution by the building of a field of orthonormal frames intrinsically associated to an n-dimensional Finsler space. It was called the Miron frame by Prof. Dr. Makoto Matsumoto from Japan, in his monograph devoted to Finsler spaces. Prof. Miron initiated a series of “National Seminars on Finsler Geometry in 1980 at the University of Brasov. This was held every two years ever since. In these meetings, Prof. Miron presented his main discoveries: generalized Finsler metrics, Lagrange spaces, generalized Lagrange spaces, Hamilton spaces, as well as a geometry of the total space of a vector bundle based on the use of a nonlinear connection. Turning on the applications in Theoretical Physics he developed a Finslerian Theory of Relativity. Since 1988 Prof. Miron concentrates much more on applications of the theory of Lagrange spaces and of generalized Lagrange spaces to Theoretical Physics. Professor Miron was invited to lecture by the well-known institutions from France, Great Britain, the former Soviet Union, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Japan. At 90, the Academician Miron is still a prominent personality of the Romanian Education in Mathematics. He received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the universities from Constanţa, Craiova, Bacău, Oradea, Galaţi and Tiraspol. Also, he received diplomas of excellence from: The Romanian Ministry of Education, The University Al. I. Cuza of Iaşi, The University P. Andrei from Iaşi. He is a honorary member of the Academy of Sciences from the Republic of Moldova and Emeritus Professor of the Al. I. Cuza University of Iaşi. In 2003, he received the Opera Omnia award from the Romanian National Council for Scientific Research and the V. Pogor award from City Hall of Iaşi. Earlier his 70th, 75th, 80th and 85th birth anniversaries were celebrated by organizing Symposiums and International Conferences. These Conferences were devoted to the main field in that he is interested: Finsler, Lagrange and Hamilton geometries and their applications to Mechanics and Physics. Reputed Romanian journals dedicated to him special volumes. The speeches and the messages received at his anniversaries were published in two volumes edited by Prof. Dr. Mihai Anastasiei (see [1], [2]). These volumes comprise as well 7 a broad and minute description of Prof. Miron’s contribution in the field of Mathematics, the list of his publications, the text of the speeches held on the occasion of his reception to the Romanian Academy, some prefaces of his books and some of his papers. Academician Miron was the Founding President of the Balkan Society of Geometers (briefly called BSG), established on 16.12.1994 at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; and, later, he became an Honorary President. With all his heart, he supported the following BSG events: organizing Conferences of Differential Geometry, Dynamical Systems and their Applications; publishing scientific works at the Editorial House of BSG Geometry Balkan Press – bringing 4 issues of scientific journals in Mathematics annually. Geometers from all over the world recognize Prof. Miron as an excellent mathematician and model of absolute dedication towards the development of the Romanian Differential Geometry School. Publications: 1. Miron, Radu and Anastasiei, M.: Vector Bundles, Lagrange Spaces: Applications to Relativity, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 1987; 2. ____: The Geometry of Lagrange Spaces: Theory and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Holland), 1994; 3. Miron, Radu: The Geometry of Higher Order Lagrange Spaces: Applications to Mechanics and Physics, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Holland), 1997; 4. ____: The Geometry of Higher Order Finsler Spaces, Hadronic Press, Palm Harbor, (USA), 1998; 5. ____; Hrimiuc, D.; Shimada, H. & Sabău, V.S.: The Geometry of Lagrange and Hamilton spaces in collaboration, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Holland), 2001; 6. ____ and Bucătaru, I.: Finsler-Lagrange Geometry: Applications to dynamic systems, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 2007. 4.2. Prof. Dr. Richard Sheldon Palais: (born May 22, 1931) is a differential geometer who introduced the Principle of Symmetric Criticality, the Mostow - Palais theorem, the Lie Palais theorem, the Morse - Palais lemma and the Palais - Smale compactness condition. He obtained a Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 1956 under the joint supervision of Professors Andrew M. Gleason and George Mackey. He was a Sloan Fellow from 1965 to 1967 and was an invited speaker (on Banach manifolds of fiber bundle sections) in 1970 at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Nice. From 1965 to 1982 he was an editor for the Journal of Differential Geometry and from 1966 to 1969 an editor for the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. In 2010 he received a Lester R. Ford Award and was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012. His doctoral students include Edward Bierstone, Leslie Lamport, Jill P. Mesirov, Chuu-lian Terng, Karen Uhlenbeck, D.C. Goyal (an alumnus of Univ. of Allahabad) etc. 8 REFERENCES [1] Anastasiei, Mihai (editor): The Mathematician Radu Miron: His works and life, Geometry Balkan Press, Bucharest, 1998, pp. 170. [2] Anastasiei, Mihai (editor): The Mathematician Radu Miron: His works and life at 75th anniversary, Al. I. Cuza University Press, Iaşi (Romania), 2003, pp. 180. § 5. Abbreviations Abbr. Full form Al. I. APSU BBSR BHU B.R. Cal. Cf. Dept. D-G Extn. Dr. Govt. HoD Hon. Col. IAS I.G. IIT IPS Jr. L.U. Maths. MNNIT M.P. Alexandru Ioan / Alexander John Awadhesh Pratap Singh University Bhubaneswar Banaras Hindu University Bhimrao Ramji California Confer Department Director - General Extension Doctor Government Head of Department Honorary Colonel Indian Administrative Service Inspector General Indian Institute of Technology Indian Police Service Journal Lucknow University Mathematics Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Madhya Pradesh Mrs. MS Missus (for a married lady) Maharashtra State Abbr. Full form M.Sc. Master of Science NCC National Cadet Corps No. Number PCS Provincial Civil Service Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy Phys. Physics Prof. Professor Retd. Retired RTM Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj S.B. Stony Brook Sci. Science Secy. Secretary Sr. Serial St. Saint Stats. Statistics SUNY State University of New York UCLA Univ. of California at Los Angels Univ. University Uo.. University of … UoAlld. University of Allahabad U.P. Uttar Pradesh USA United States of America VBSPU Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University VC Vice Chancellor 9 § 6. Picture Profiles 10 11