U. S. R. Murty
U. S. R. Murty | |
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U.S.R. Murty in 1996 | |
| Born | Uppaluri Siva Ramachandra Murty 23 December 1940 |
| Died | 13 May 2025 (aged 84) |
| Alma mater | Indian Statistical Institute |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Waterloo |
| Thesis | Extremal Graph Theoretic Problems with Applications to Communication Networks (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | C. R. Rao |
| Doctoral students | William J. Cook |
| Website | uwaterloo |
Uppaluri Siva Ramachandra Murty, (23 December 1940 – 13 May 2025) was a professor of the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
U. S. R. Murty received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, with a thesis on extremal graph theory; his advisor was C. R. Rao. Murty is well known for his work in matroid theory and graph theory, and mainly for being a co-author with J. A. Bondy of a textbook on graph theory. Murty has served as a managing editor and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B. He died in Toronto, Ontario on 13 May 2025.