Kanta Gupta | |
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Alma mater | Aligarh Muslim University Australian National University |
Awards | Krieger–Nelson Prize |
Chander Kanta Gupta FRSC (8 October 1938 – 27 March 2016) was a Canadian distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Manitoba, known for her research in abstract algebra and group theory. Much of her research concerns the automorphisms in different varieties of groups.
Education
Gupta earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Jammu and Kashmir, a master's degree from the Aligarh Muslim University, another master's degree from the Australian National University, and a Ph.D. in 1967 from ANU under the supervision of Michael Frederick Newman.
Recognition
She was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1991, and awarded the Krieger–Nelson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society in 2000.
Personal
Her husband, Narain Gupta (1936–2008) was also an ANU alumnus, and a distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Manitoba.
References
- "Chander Gupta Obituary - Thomson In the Park Funeral Home and Cem - Winnipeg MB". obits.dignitymemorial.com. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- "Chander Gupta Obituary - Winnipeg, Manitoba". Legacy.com. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- Distinguished Professors of the Faculty of Science Archived 13 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Univ. of Manitoba, retrieved 2015-06-09.
- ^ 6th Krieger–Nelson Prize Lecture Citation, Canadian Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-06-09.
- Kanta Gupta at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Obituary of Narain Gupta, Winnipeg Free Press, 14 April 2008, retrieved 2015-06-09.
- 1938 births
- 2016 deaths
- 20th-century Indian mathematicians
- 21st-century Indian women mathematicians
- Canadian mathematicians
- Canadian women mathematicians
- Aligarh Muslim University alumni
- Australian National University alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Manitoba
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
- Indian group theorists
- Scientists from Jammu and Kashmir
- 20th-century Indian women scientists
- 21st-century Indian mathematicians
- Women scientists from Jammu and Kashmir
- 21st-century Indian women scientists
- 20th-century women mathematicians