Komaravolu S. Chandrasekharan (born 21 November 1920)
is a professor emeritus at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. and a founding faculty member of School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research is a research institution in India dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India. It is located at Navy Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai...

 (TIFR). He is known for his work in number theory

Number theory

Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers. Number theorists study prime numbers as well...

 and summability and was given numerous awards including Padma Shri

Padma Shri

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, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award

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, Ramanujan Medal, and Honorary fellow of TIFR.

Chandrasekharan completed his high school from Bapatla village in Guntur

Guntur

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 from Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

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. He completed his M.A. in mathematics from the Presidency College

Presidency College

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, Chennai

Chennai

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 and a Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics, University of Madras

University of Madras

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 in 1942, under the supervision of K. Ananda Rau.

When Chandrasekharan was with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A., Homi Bhabha invited Chandrashekharan to join the School of Mathematics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research is a research institution in India dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India. It is located at Navy Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai...

 (TIFR). Chandrasekharan persuaded mathematicians from all over the world, to visit TIFR and deliver courses of lectures. They were L. Schwarz, C. L. Siegel and many more. In 1965, Chandrashekharan, after the death of Dr. Homi Bhabha

Homi J. Bhabha

Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FRS was an Indian nuclear physicist and the chief architect of the Indian atomic energy program...

 in a plane crash, left the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research to join the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, where he retired in 1988.

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