Early Life & Education
Samaranayake was born to Mr. and Mrs. V. W. Samaranayake on May 22, 1939. He started his primary schooling at Ananda College and completed his secondary education with distinction at the prestigious Royal College Colombo and went on to do his higher studies at the University of Ceylon. He graduated with a BSc in Special Mathematics (First Class Honors) in 1961 and then proceeded to England for his post-graduate studies on a Ceylon Government Scholarship for Mathematics. He received a Diploma of Imperial College from Imperial College and a Ph.D. from King's College London, both in the field of Mathematical Physics.
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