Ramaswamy Ranga Rao
Ramaswamy Ranga Rao (1935 - 27 August 2021) was a prominent Indian mathematician who made fundamental contributions to statistics, Lie groups, and Lie algebras and worked as professor for most of his career in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign until 2001. He finished his Ph.D. under the supervision of C.R. Rao from Indian Statistical Institute. He was one of the "famous four" students of Rao: (the others were K. R. Parthasarathy, Veeravalli S. Varadarajan, and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan) in ISI during 1956-1963.
Ramaswamy Ranga Rao | |
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| Born | 1935 |
| Died | 27 August 2021 (aged 85–86) |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Alma mater | Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College University of Madras (PhD) Indian Statistical Institute |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Indian Statistical Institute |
| Doctoral advisor | C. R. Rao |
After retiring in 2001, he moved to Chennai in 2015. He died on 27 August 2021.