Indian-American Mathematical Genius Nikhil Srivastava Of The Three Who Solved the Famous 1959 Problem, Won the Prize
Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava is one of three winners of The Ciprian Foias Prize.
Washington:
Renowned Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava, now teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, was jointly selected for the first Ciprian Foias Prize in Operator Theory from the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Along with Nikhil Srivastava, the other two awardees were Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman. Adam Marcus holds the position of President of Complex Analysis at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Daniel Spielman is the Sterling Professor of Computer Science, a professor of statistics and data science, and a professor of mathematics.
The award recognizes their unique work that has introduced and developed methods for understanding characteristic polynomials of matrices, namely the iterative discriminant method (also in collaboration with Batson) and the iterative discriminant method. interleaved polynomials, a media release said.
“Together, these ideas have provided a powerful toolkit with many applications, notably in the groundbreaking paper of the trilogy” Alternate Family II: Mixed Characteristic Polynomials and the problem of Kadison-Singer” (Annals of Mathematics, 2015), solved the famous ‘paving problem’ in operator theory, postulated in 1959 by Richard Kadison and Isadore Singer, “American Mathematical Society” said.
In a joint statement, the three awardees said they would like to accept it on behalf of the many people whose work has contributed to solving the Kadison-Singer issue.
“Our participation is the final chapter of an incredible story that we hope will inspire similar solutions to difficult problems in the future,” they said.
The prize will be presented to Professor Nikhil Srivastava and his colleagues on January 5 next year at the 2022 Joint Mathematical Meeting in Seattle, described as “the largest mathematical gathering in the world. “
The Ciprian Foias Prize is the third major award given by Nikhil Srivastava, who previously won the George Polya Prize in 2014 and the award is held in 2021.
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