Mahan Mj
Mahan Maharaj | |
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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
Thesis | Maps on boundaries of hyperbolic metric spaces (1997) |
Doctoral advisor | Andrew Casson |
Mahan Maharaj (born Mahan Mitra (
Early education
Mahan Mitra studied at
Career
Mahan Mitra joined the PhD program in mathematics at the
He was Professor of Mathematics and Dean of Research at the
He has widely published and presented his research in the area of hyperbolic manifolds and ending lamination spaces. His most notable work is the proof of existence of Cannon–Thurston maps.[9][10] This led to the resolution of the conjecture that connected limit sets of finitely generated Kleinian groups are locally connected.[4] He is also the author of a book titled Maps on boundaries of hyperbolic metric spaces.[11]
Mj was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro.
Personal life
Mj became a monk of the Ramakrishna order in 1998.[5] Mahan Maharaj, as he is known to his students and colleagues, is fluent in English, Hindi and Bengali. He also knows a bit of Tamil, learnt from his stay in southern part of India at IMSc. He has been quoted as saying, "I am enjoying being a monk as much as I enjoy my mathematics".[12]
References
- ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize".
- IBN Live. 26 September 2011. Archived from the originalon 4 January 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
- ^ "Infosys Prize - Laureates 2015".
- ^ a b c "Prof. Mahan Mitra". Office of Resources and Alumni, IIT Kanpur. 24 February 2021.
- ^ a b "Being a mathematician is not that far removed from being a monk: Prof. Mahan Mj". Mint. 5 December 2015.
- ^ Mahan Mj at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Vidyanathananda, the wizard who became a monk - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ "Faculty". math.tifr.res.in.
- ^ Cannon-Thurston maps for surface groups
- S2CID 9083637.
- ISBN 978-0591-52738-4.
- ^ Pandey, Jhimli Mukherjee (28 October 2011). "RKM monk wins country's top math award". The Times of India. Kolkata. Archived from the original on 31 October 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2013.