THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

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"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

- William Shakespeare

TOPIC OF THE DAY

S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan is an Indian-American probabilist. He was born January 2, 1940 in Madras (Chennai), India. He received his undergraduate degree in 1959 from Presidency College, Madras and his doctorate in 1963 from the Indian Statistical Institute under Calyampudi R. Rao, who arranged for Andrey Kolmogorov to be present at Varadhan's thesis defense. Since 1963, he has worked at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, where he is currently a professor.

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