Education
University of Mumbai. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
University of Mumbai. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
He has written two books: Kac-Moody groups, their flag varieties, and representation theory and Frobenius splitting methods in geometry and representation theory (jointly with Michel Brion). Born and raised in Ghazipur, India, Shrawan Kumar earned a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from the University of Mumbai and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research), Mumbai in 1986. His advisor was South. Ramanan.
Shrawan Kumar is the younger brother of Gopal Prasad, a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan, and the elder brother of Dipendra Prasad, a professor of mathematics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
American Mathematical Society.