About Siva Athreya
Born 1971. Siva Athreya is an Indian mathematician and statistician.
Siva Ramachandran Athreya (born 1971) is an Indian probability theorist specialising in statistical physics and population biology.
He graduated in mathematics from St Stephen's College, Delhi, went to the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata and Bangalore where he completed his master's, and obtained his PhD degree from the University of Washington in 1998 under the supervision of Krzysztof Burdzy. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2012, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category.
He has co-written the book, "Probability and Statistics with Examples using R" (along with Deepayan Sarkar and Steve Tanner).
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Indian mathematician
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