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Prof. Raman Parimala, long at TIFR and now at Emory University, is one of the world's leading algebraists. Her work on quadratic forms and classical groups answered questions that had been open for decades.
Key contributions
- Counterexample to a quadratic analogue of Serre's conjecture (1976)
- Hasse principle for classical groups (with Bayer-Fluckiger)
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1987); TWAS Prize (2005)