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Rajendra Bhatia and his mathematical achievements

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In this paper, we provide a biography of Professor Rajendra Bhatia and discuss some of his influential mathematical works as one of the leading researchers in matrix analysis and linear algebra.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Dr. Marco Congedo for providing us the information on applications of Rajendra Bhatia’s results in Brain–Computer Interfaces. The two photographs are courtesy Ren-Cang Li and Yiu-Tung Poon. The third author, Tanvi Jain, is financial supported by SERB MATRICS Grant number MTR/2018/000554.

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  1. Hokkaido University (Emeritus), Sapporo, Japan

    Tsuyoshi Ando

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 2E4, Canada

    Chandler Davis

  3. Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre, 7 S. J. S. Sansanwal Marg, New Delhi, 110016, India

    Tanvi Jain

  4. Department of Mathematics, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

    Fuad Kittaneh

  5. Department of Pure Mathematics, Center of Excellence in Analysis on Algebraic Structures (CEAAS), Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, P.O. Box 1159, Mashhad, 91775, Iran

    Mohammad Sal Moslehian

  6. Division of Science, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), 129188, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Ilya M. Spitkovsky

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Ando, T., Davis, C., Jain, T. et al. Rajendra Bhatia and his mathematical achievements. Adv. Oper. Theory 5, 850–863 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43036-020-00088-0

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