Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy
{{Short description|Indian mathematician (1940 - 2023)}}
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| birth_place = Chennai, India
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| death_place = Chennai, India
| field = Mathematics, Game theory
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| doctoral_advisor = C. R. (Calyampudi Radhakrishna) Rao
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| known_for = Parthasarathy's theorem
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Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy (29 February 1940 - 22 September 2023), known and published as T. Parthasarathy, was an Indian game theorist and mathematician.
Life and career
He co-authored a book on game theory with T. E. S. Raghavan,{{Cite book |last=Parthasarathy |first=T. |title=Some topics in two-person games |last2=Raghavan |first2=T. E. S. |publisher=Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc. |year=1971 |isbn=978-0444000590 |edition=1st |series=Modern Analytic and Computational Methods in Science and Mathematics. No. 22. |location=New York: American |pages=X, 259 p. |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Rosenthal |first=Robert W. |date=1972 |title=Some Topics in Two-Person Games (T. Parthasarathy and T. E. S. Raghavan) |url=https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/1014044 |journal=SIAM Review |language=en |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=356–357 |doi=10.1137/1014044 |issn=0036-1445|url-access=subscription }} and two research monographs, one on optimization{{Citation |last=Parthasarathy |first=T. |title=Supplementary remarks on selection theorems |date=1972 |work=Lecture Notes in Mathematics |pages=85–101 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/bfb0058356 |access-date=2025-02-03 |place=Berlin, Heidelberg |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |isbn=978-3-540-05818-2}} and one on univalence theory,{{Cite book |last=Parthasarathy |first=T. |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BFb0065566 |title=On Global Univalence Theorems |date=1983 |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |isbn=978-3-540-11988-3 |series=Lecture Notes in Mathematics |volume=977 |location=Berlin, Heidelberg |doi=10.1007/bfb0065566}} published by Springer-Verlag. He was a former president of the Indian Mathematical Society.
He received his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees from University of Madras. He worked on the topic of "Minimax Theorems and Product solutions for simple games" under the guidance of C. R. Rao and received his PhD in 1967 from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He delivered many lectures and seminars at University of Madras, Indian Statistical Institute, and Chennai Mathematical Institute. On the list of his scientific publication since 1965 there are more that 90 positions.{{Cite web |title=Thiruvankatachari Parthasarathy - Author Profile - zbMATH Open |url=https://zbmath.org/authors/parthasarathy.thiruvankatachari |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=zbmath.org}}{{cite web |access-date=2021-02-19 |date=1965 |first=Thiruvenkatachari |language=en |last=Parthasarathy |number=American Mathematical Society |title=List of publication in MathSciNet |url=https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/search/author.html?mrauthid=195453 |website=MathSciNet}} He promoted PhDs students.{{Cite web |title=Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy - The Mathematics Genealogy Project |url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=48993 |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu}}
Parthasarathy received Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award for Mathematical Sciences (1986). He was elected as Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1988) and Indian National Science Academy (1995).
He died on September 22, 2023, at the age of 83 at his Chennai residence.
References
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External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110716084817/https://www.bschool.nus.edu.sg/Departments/Decision%20Sciences/files/Bio%20of%20speakers/Thiruvenkatachari-B.htm
{{SSBPST recipients in Mathematical Science}}
{{Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Laureates of Tamil Nadu}}
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Category:20th-century Indian mathematicians
Category:Presidents of the Indian Mathematical Society
Category:Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
Category:Scientists from Chennai
Category:Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science