K. G. Ramanathan's Early Life and His Family
K. G. Ramanathan was born in Hyderabad in South India. He completed his B.A. and M.A. in mathematics at Osmania University and the University of Madras respectively before going to Princeton to earn his Ph.D; his advisor was Emil Artin. At Princeton, Ramanathan also worked with Hermann Weyl and Carl Siegel. Thereafter he returned to India to team up with K. Chandrasekharan at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) at Colaba in 1951.
Ramanathan was married to Jayalakshmi Ramanathan. He had two sons Ananth, Mohan and four grandchildren Aparna, Kavitha, Anita and Nikil.
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