V. Kumar Murty’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Indian mathematician
Is Mathematician 
Professor 
Educator 
From Canada 
India 
Type Academia 
Mathematics 
Gender male
Birth 20 May 1956
Age: 64 years
Star sign Taurus
Family
Siblings: M. Ram Murty 
Education
Harvard University
Carleton University
Awards
Coxeter–James Prize 1991

Vijaya Kumar Murty FRSC (born 20 May 1956) is an Indo-Canadian mathematician working in number theory.

Biography

Murty obtained his BSc in 1977 from Carleton University and his PhD in mathematics in 1982 from Harvard University under John Tate.

He and his brother, M. Ram Murty, have written more than 20 joint papers. In a book edited by Alex Michalos, there is a description of how the Murty brothers learned mathematics in their teens.

Awards

Murty received the Coxeter–James Prize in 1991 from the Canadian Mathematical Society. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1995. In 1996, he, along with his brother, M. Ram Murty, received the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize for the book “Non-vanishing of L-functions and their applications.”

In 2018, the Canadian Mathematical Society listed him in their inaugural class of fellows.

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