The Mathematical Legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788132217435)

M. Ram Murty is head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University, and is a Queen's research chair in mathematics. He is also professor of philosophy at Queen's. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1990, the Indian National Science Academy in 2008, and won the Coxeter-James Prize, Jeffery-Williams Prize, E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship, and the Killam Fellowship. His research areas include number theory, modular forms, elliptic curves, and sieve theory. His book Non-vanishing of L-functions and Applications, coauthored by his brother V. Kumar Murty, won the 1996 Balaguer Prize and was published by Birkhauser. In addition, Ram is adjunct professor at McGill University; TIFR; IMSc; CMI; IIT Bombay; IISER, West Bengal; Vivekananda University; and Harish Chandra Research Institute, Uttar Pradesh.

V. Kumar Murty is head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. His research areas include number theory, arithmetic geometry, and their applications. He was awarded the Coxeter-James Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society in 1991, the E. W. R. Steacie Fellowship of NSERC in 1995, and the Inventor of the Year Award of the University of Toronto in 2011. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1995 and a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, and as editor of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. Moreover, he served on the board of directors of the Canadian Mathematical Society during 1995-1999 and as vice-president of the society during 2009-2011. Kumar Murty received his PhD from Harvard University. He is adjunct professor at TIFR, IMSc, CMI, the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, and Vivekananda University.