Dinesh Thakur

Background

Thakur was born in Mumbai, India.

Education

He attended Balmohan Vidyamandir School in Bombay. He completed his undergraduate studies at Ruia College, University of Bombay.

Career

Before moving to Rochester, Thakur was a professor at University of Arizona. His main research interest is number theory. He got his Doctor of Philosophy in 1987 at Harvard University under the guidance of Professor John Tate.

Thakur has spent three and half years at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and three years at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay.

He held positions at University of Minnesota and University of Michigan. He moved to University of Arizona in 1993.

He joined University of Rochester in July 2013. Thakur wrote a research monograph Function Field Arithmetic.

Thakur has been serving on the editorial boards of Journal of Number Theory, International Journal of Number Theory, and P-adic Numbers, Ultrametric Analysis and Applications.

Achievements

• He was the founder-director of ANK productions, a Mumbai-based theatre company, established in 1976. Though he mainly appeared as character roles in Hindi films, as a screenwriter and story writer, he is known for writing the story and screenplay of Ghar (1978), which won him the 1979 Filmfare Best Story Award. 1974 saw him appearing in Basu Chatterjee's landmark in middle cinema, Rajnigandha (1974), alongside Amol Palekar and Vidya Sinha, which won the Filmfare Best Film Award, and went on appear in several films with both the directors in the coming years.

Membership

Thakur is a founding member of-and for 15 years a participant in-the National Science Foundation-funded Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry and the Arizona Winter School.