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Ramesh Gangolli has been serving as the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington, Seattle, since 1962. He is an active mathematician and educationist, and has served as the Sloan Foundation Fellow (1966–68); Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1966–67); In 1966 he was awarded the Prix Paul Levy by the Academy of Sciences of France. He has served on advisory committees of the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council, as a Trustee of the American Mathematical Society, Chair of the AMS’s Committee on Education, and in other similar roles. Ramesh Gangolli also maintains a serious interest in the classical music of North India and teaches in the Ethnomusicology Program in the School of Music.

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Gangolli, R. In Memoriam — V. S. Varadarajan. Reson 24, 947–962 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-019-0862-9

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