Story
Prof. M. S. Narasimhan of TIFR, with C. S. Seshadri, proved the Narasimhan–Seshadri theorem and made TIFR a world centre for algebraic geometry. He later led the mathematics group at ICTP, Trieste.
Key contributions
- Narasimhan–Seshadri theorem (1965)
- Fundamental work on moduli spaces of vector bundles
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1996); King Faisal International Prize (2006); Padma Bhushan (1990)