Biographical Sketch

Phoolan Prasad held a distinguished chair of  MSIL Professorship
during  1993-96  in  the  Mathematics  Department  of the Indian 
Institute  of  Science,  Bangalore and  was also the Chairman of 
the Department during 1996-2000.  He was born in a small village 
Khejuri,  Ballia,  U.P.,  India.  His wife, Mandra and he have a 
daughter Deepika and son Amritanshu. As a student of B.Sc.(Hons) 
and M.Sc., he  won  many medals  for  proficiency in mathematics 
from  Calcutta  University  during  1962-64.  For  his  research 
contribution  in  nonlinear waves,  he was awarded S.S.Bhatnagar 
Prize  in  1983 by the Government of India.  Fellow of all three 
academies in India: National Academy of Sciences, Indian Academy 
of Sciences and  Indian National Science Academy;  he has played 
in  India a  very important  role  in the development of quality 
education in mathematics  from school education to research.  He 
organised  the  training  camps  for  International Mathematical 
Olympiad  and  worked  for the Indian participation to IMO which 
became  a  reality  since 1989.  He has edited a book "Nonlinear 
Dispersive  Waves in One-dimensional Dispersive Systems"  by his 
teacher  P.L.Bhatnagar in Oxford Mathematical Monographer Series 
(1979) and  authored jointly with Prof.(Mrs.) Renuka Ravindran a 
book  "Partial Differential Equations" published in 1985 by John 
Wiley and Wiley Eastern.  Most of the material of his third book 
"Propagation  of  a  curved  shock and Nonlinear  Ray Theory" by 
Longman  Higher  Education  (1993),  and  forth book " Nonlinear 
Hyperbolic Waves in Multi-dimensions", Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2001, 
is  based  on  the  research  work  of  his  group at the Indian 
Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was a member of the National 
Board for Higher Mathematics, Government of India from 1986-1996
and Vice President of Ramanujan Mathematical Society (1991-2001)
and is now President of the Society.