mathematician Commutative Alegbraist
Imran Anwar was born on 17 May 1982, in Lahore, Pakistan. He had two brothers and two sisters. His father Muhammad Anwar was running a private advertisement company. His father was mentioned as one of his main motivators in the early stage of his career. He married to Hina Imran and had three kids; Rameen Imran, Muhammad Anzar and Qirat Imran.
Imran Anwar loved mathematics since his early school days. As he got fame in School due to his extra ordinary skills in mathematics. He loved proving trigonometric identities and algebraic expression solving. His teachers always counted him among the good students and trusted his skills a lot. Once in a first-quarter exam, he was failed in mathematics paper, it was unacceptable for him and for many of his colleagues. He requested the teacher for the re-checking of his solutions. It was a complete surprise for the teacher that all of his answers were correct with different solutions from the rest of his classmates. The teacher hurriedly crossed his solutions without having a deep look into it. He loved challenging situations and built a fighting consistent attitude from his early school days.
Imran Anwar did his Bachelors degree from the FC College, Lahore. During his BSc, he opted for double Maths and Physics. He used to spend most of his free lectures in Physics lab, as he had serious interests in Physics practicals. His calculus understanding was more or less toward the computational side. He was more obsessed with developing the skills of problem-solving, due to the structure of BSc text books and annual exams structure at that time. He used to spend more of his time with one of his college colleague Imran Aftab. They used to spend most of their college time together sitting in the library, physics lab and discussions. They used to prepare tests for each other and often had debates on the difference in understanding various concepts.
He did his Masters degree from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. He worked for the Garrison Boys High school for three months after his Masters. He applied for admission in the MPhil leading to Ph.D. program in the School of Mathematical Sciences (later on known as Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences). During his Ph.D. admission test, he was competing with the teachers, who taught him during his Bachelors and Masters degrees. He got his place in those selected 11 candidates out of around 170 applicants. His mathematical development at the School was full of amusement and filled with inspirational stories. He was highly impressed by one of his teachers, Amer Iqbal. Amer Iqbal taught him the courses of number theory and elliptic curves. Once in his additional lectures, Amer Iqbal expressed about the Millennium problems in Mathematics. The story of Andrew Wiles, how he solved the Fermat's conjecture. It inspired him a lot and he started reading more about mathematicians and celebrated problems and their stories. He was a very enthusiastic learner as a student of mathematics. He used to inquire about the upcoming topics to be taught by his teachers. He used to read that topic from different books and got his own understanding in advance. It allowed him to raise critical questions/observations during the classes. He got a good reputation among his colleagues and teachers for his curious and deep questions. His questions during seminars put the speaker in serious troubles many times. He carried his curious habit of posing critical questions along in his career. He won various distinctions as a Ph.D. scholar including, Pre-PhD Quality Research award in 2007 due to his paper in the Journal of Algebra. He got high-quality skills in presentations. His first-ever presentation was attended by a packed hall of faculty members and students from various institutes in Lahore. The faculty of the School at that time was mainly comprised of foreign mathematicians. He was presenting the topic of straight edge and compass constructions. One of the notable mathematicians, C. G. Gibson was sitting in the first row. He efficiently answered many teasing and critical questions that prolonged his talk timing to two hours from one. C. G. Gibson came to him after the talk and appreciated his temperament and his way of tackling questions. He was so impressed when he came to know that he was talking to a first-year student at the School. He won a special prize for best presentation in the Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences, the Second prize for the best presentation in LUMS.
He worked in the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore after the completion of his Ph.D. till 2015. During this tenure, he built his mathematical teaching skills at the professional level. Many students and faculty members consulted him regarding their mathematical problems and discussions. He used to teach maths courses to the students of BS programs of Computer Sciences, Electrical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering. Moreover, he taught algebra courses to masters and Ph.D. students at COMSATS, Lahore. He was good at teaching critical abstract concepts with various elaborations and applications. His classes were usually filled with guests students from other sections. Many times, it happened that students got too much interested in maths and consulted about career switching, to become a mathematician.
Later on, he joined the Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences as an Associate Professor. The time he joined, the School was struggling for its survival after the terrible collapse of academic administration. He along with the well known theoretical Physicist Amer Iqbal revived and rebuilt the academic structure of the Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences align with the international practices. They wanted to make the School a hub of productive activities in mathematics and theoretical physics. In a short span of time, the School gained a good reputation through its weekly seminars, special lecture series, short course on advanced topics and workshops.
(His research interests lies in commutative algebra and al...)
Imran Anwar was born in a Muslim family. He has not been so receptive of the hatred stuff decried by most of the religious scholars in the country. He strongly believed that no religion is above to humanity.
Imran Anwar always kept independent views on different policies. He was more concerned with the suppressing and oppressive attitudes based on the difference of ideologies. He believed that the political structures/mindset of Pakistan should be free from the religious binding more open and acceptable for all citizens on equality. The religious thoughts in sciences would have been exploited and effected sciences in the country like Pakistan. As people are not receptive to the ideas by a person from different ideologies. He admired and impressed the efforts of Jibran Nasir.
He was the active member of American Mathematical Society.
Imran Anwar had a self-motivated personality. He loved discussion on various issues. He loved watching mathematical documentaries/movies. He happened to be the vocal and uprighted person in meetings and addressing various educational policy matters. He carried prominence and lively personality. He earned a good reputation as an honest and hardworking faculty member. He used to inspire his students by telling them the historical inception of various mathematical concepts during his classes. He had a good class grip, his lectures were filled with heavy mathematical conceptual discussions alongside with entertaining "crazy maths" (proofing absurdities by breaking mathematical laws). He was sarcastic toward Pakistani universities mocking policies toward research requirements.
Physical Characteristics: He was 5' 10'' tall with open chested man filled with lots of energy.
Quotes from others about the person
'consider yourself as the best mathematician of the universe', while attacking a problem.
'Never use your cannons to kill a mosquito', be smart in problem solving
'Always compete with your teacher as a student, while understanding and explaining a concept'.
'Always consider yourself as a beginner and stay curious and receptive during mathematical lectures and talks'
