M. Ram Murty

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|10|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = Guntur, India

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| nationality = Canadian

| fields = Mathematics

| workplaces = McGill University
Queen's University

| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology

| doctoral_advisor = Harold Stark
Dorian M. Goldfeld

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| awards = Coxeter–James Prize (1988)

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Maruti Ram Pedaprolu Murty, FRSC (born 16 October 1953){{cite journal |date=September 2007 |title=Biographies of Candidates 2007 |journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society |volume=54 |issue=8 |pages=1043–1057 |url=https://www.ams.org/notices/200708/tx070801043p.pdf |access-date=25 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090902104456/http://www.ams.org/notices/200708/tx070801043p.pdf |archive-date=2009-09-02 |url-status=live }}

is an Indo-Canadian mathematician at Queen's University, where he holds a Queen's Research Chair{{cite web |url = http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~murty/ |title = Ram Murty's home page |access-date = 22 January 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120121020932/http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~murty/ |archive-date = 2012-01-21 |url-status = live }} in mathematics.

Biography

M. Ram Murty is the brother of mathematician V. Kumar Murty.Alex Michalos (editor), The Best Teacher I ever Had, Personal Reports from Highly Productive Scholars, The University of Western Ontario, London, 2003, 290p. {{ISBN|0-920354-53-X}}.

Murty graduated with a B.Sc. from Carleton University in 1976.{{Cite web |last=Murty |first=M. Ram |date=2017-06-02 |title=How I Discovered Euclidean Proofs |url=https://mast.queensu.ca/~murty/euclidean.pdf |access-date=2022-07-01}} He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supervised by Harold Stark and Dorian Goldfeld.{{MathGenealogy|id=30592}} He was on the faculty of McGill University from 1982 until 1996, when he joined Queen's University. Murty is also cross-appointed as a professor of philosophy at Queen's, specialising in Indian philosophy.{{cite web |url = https://www.queensu.ca/philosophy/people/faculty-and-fellows |title = Faculty and Fellows at the Department of Philosophy of Queen's University |access-date = 2022-07-01 }}

Research

Specializing in number theory, Murty is a researcher in the areas of modular forms, elliptic curves, and sieve theory.

Murty has Erdős number 1 and frequently collaborates with his brother, V. Kumar Murty.

Awards

Murty received the Coxeter–James Prize in 1988.{{cite web |url= http://cms.math.ca/Prizes/info/cj.html |website=Canadian Mathematical Society |title=Coxeter–James Prize |accessdate=3 December 2021}} He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1990,{{cite web | url = http://www.rsc.ca/submitsearch.php?sFirstName=M.+Ram&sLastName=Murty&sAcademy=&sAffiliation=&sElection=&btnSearch=Search | title = Membership | work = Royal Society of Canada | access-date = 10 October 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120309013246/http://www.rsc.ca/submitsearch.php?sFirstName=M.+Ram&sLastName=Murty&sAcademy=&sAffiliation=&sElection=&btnSearch=Search | archive-date = 9 March 2012 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }} was elected to the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 2008,{{cite web|url = http://www.insaindia.org/Newsletter/IN%20194.pdf|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091024223115/http://www.insaindia.org/Newsletter/IN%20194.pdf|url-status = dead|archive-date = 24 October 2009|title = INSA newsletter|work = Indian National Science Academy (INSA)|access-date = 15 November 2010}} and became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813031627/http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list |date=2013-08-13 }}, retrieved 2013-02-10.

Selected publications

{{Cite book

|last1= Cojocaru

|first1 = Alina Carmen

|authorlink1=Alina Carmen Cojocaru

|last2= Murty

|first2= M. Ram

|title= An introduction to sieve methods and their applications

|publisher= Cambridge University Press

|year= 2006

|isbn= 0-521-84816-4

|mr= 2200366

|series= London Mathematical Society Student Texts

|volume= 66

}}.{{cite journal|last1=Thorne|first1=Frank|title=Book Review: An introduction to sieve methods and their applications by Alina Carmen Cojocaru and M. Ram Murty and Opera de cribro by John Friedlander and Henryk Iwaniec|journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society|volume=50|issue=2|year=2012|pages=359–366|issn=0273-0979|doi=10.1090/S0273-0979-2012-01390-3|doi-access=free}}