M. Ram Murty

M. RAM MURTY is Queen’s Research Chair and A.V. Douglas Distinguished University Professor at Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He obtained his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, in 1980, and subsequently held positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in Mumbai, and McGill University in Montreal. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Mathematical Society and the Indian National Science Academy, India. He has authored more than 250 research papers and written more than a dozen mathematical textbooks. His monograph, Non-vanishing of L-functions and Applications, written jointly with Professor V. Kumar Murty, won the 1996 Balaguer Prize. He also teaches the Indian philosophy at Queen’s University and has authored a book, Indian Philosophy: An Introduction.