N. U. Prabhu
Narahari Umanath Prabhu (25 April 1924 – 14 October 2022) was an Indian-American mathematician, known for his contributions to
operation research, in particular queueing theory.[1]
He did not seek a Ph.D., however he guided a number of Ph.Ds.
Career
Prabhu, who was from
University of Bombay (1950). Prabhu was the founding head of the department of statistics, Karnatak University, Dharwar in 1951.[2] He obtained a M.Sc. in mathematics from University of Manchester
on a thesis entitled Solution to Some Dam Problems (1957).
Prabhu lectured at
Technion in Haifa (1973), University of Melbourne (1978), University of Maryland, College Park (1979), and Uppsala University (1984) [citation needed
].
Prabhu was the founding
Springer Verlag
, 1997) and Stochastic storage processes (Springer, 1998).
The South Asia Program at Cornell created the Rabindranath Tagore Endowment in Modern Indian Literature, made possible through a gift by Professor Emeritus Narahari Umanath Prabhu and his wife [citation needed].
Prabhu died on 14 October 2022, at the age of 98.[3]
Awards
- INFORMS(Applied Probability) Award of Honor (1997)
- Honorary fellow of the Indian statistical association (1998)
References
- ^ biography from Cornell University
- ^ Founder head of the statistics department, Karnataka University, Dharwar Archived 13 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Narahari Umanath Prabhu". Legacy. 20 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
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