Background
He was born in Cuddalore in the year 1935 and he obtained his Ph.
He was born in Cuddalore in the year 1935 and he obtained his Ph.
Doctorate. from Columbia under the guidance of Samuel Eilenberg in Filtered algebras and Representations of Lie Algebras. Another SSB Prize awardee, Raman Parimala was his Doctor of Philosophy student at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.