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Dr harish chandra

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Born
11 October
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died
16 October
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Summary
Harish-Chandra was an Indian-born mathematician and physicist who worked mainly in America and did fundamental work in representation theory, especially on Lie groups.

Biography

Harish-Chandra's mother was Satyagati Seth, who was the daughter of the lawyer Ram Sanehi Seth, and his father was Chandrakishore who was a civil engineer.

Chandrakishore had been educated at the Thomason Engineering College at Roorkee, then entered the Indian Service of Engineers and the first part of his career was [14]:-

spent in the field, usually on horseback, inspecting and maintaining the dikes of the extensive network of canals in the northern plains.
Since Harish-Chandra's father spent most of his time travelling around the country inspecting canals, Harish-Chandra spent most of his childhood living in his maternal grandfather's home in Kanpur.

Ram Sanehi Seth was a