In the history of mathematics, Mythily Ramaswamy is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Mythily Ramaswamy as Indian mathematician.
Mythily Ramaswamy was born in 1954. Her recorded nationality is India. She studied at Pierre and Marie Curie University.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
Mathematical work is judged by whether anyone can build on it, and that judgement takes decades.
That the work was done from India matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Mythily Ramaswamy is still working, and the final assessment of the contribution has not been made.
