Ajit Iqbal Singh is an Indian mathematician, specialising in functional analysis and harmonic analysis.
Education
Singh completed her under graduation in Mathematics from Indraprastha College and graduated in the same subject from Delhi University in 1963 and 1965, respectively. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1969. Her dissertation titled "Contributions to the Theory of Linear Operators in Locally Convex Spaces", was supervised by Frank Smithies.
Singh attended Cambridge as a Commonwealth Scholar at Newnham College from 1966 to 1969.
Career
Singh is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées), India"s apex body of scientists and technologists. She is also a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (India), based in Allahabad. Singh began teaching immediately after completing her master"s degree, as faculty at Indraprastha College, Delhi University.
She taught alongside her research in functional analysis and harmonic analysis.
In 1974, Singh was appointed Reader in Mathematics at Delhi University South Campus and continued on as Professor from 1984 to 2008. From 2008, she has been a Visiting Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre.