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Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy (born on 1 March 1941, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu) is a game theorist and distinguished Indian mathematician and the co-author of a book on game theory with T. E. S. Raghavan, and of two research monographs, one on optimization and one on univalence theory, published by Springer-Verlag. He is a former president of the Indian Mathematical Society.
He received his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees from Madras University. He worked on “Minimax Theorems and Product solutions for simple games” under the guidance of the eminent C. R. Rao and received Ph.D during 1967 from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Parthasarathy received Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award for Mathematical Sciences (1986). He was elected as Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1988) and Indian National Science Academy (1995).
He has advised about 10 doctoral students over his career spanning the University of Illinois, the Indian Statistical Institute and the Chennai Mathematical Institute.