IN APPRECIATION OF DR ZAKIR HUSAIN AWARD

摘要

During 21-25 January 2001, an International Conference combined with the 6th biennial meeting of the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathemaitcs (ISIAM) was organized at Guru Nanak Dev University, Am-ritsar, India. The conference was very well organized, thanks to the superb organizational skills and generous hospitality of Professors A. H. Siddiqi and P. Manchanda. I had the pleasure of being one of the invited speakers from outside India. At that meeting, the first Dr. Zakir Husain award was given to Professor Jagat Narain Kapur. I was sitting in the audience when tribute was paid to the late Dr. Zakir Husain, the third President of the Republic of India, a distinguished scholar, and great humanitarian. It never occurred to me while listening to the citation for Dr. Zakir Husain Award to Professor Kapur that one day I might be a recipient of this award. But here I am 10 years later: honored and delighted! On such occasion, one is tempted to look up the roster of previous recipients of the award: ?Professor Jagat Narain Kapur, Indian Institute of Technology Kan-pur, India ?Professor Helmut Neunzert, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany ? Professor atepalli R. Sreenivasan, Director of Abdus S alam International Centre of Theoretical Physics, Italy ? Professor Roddam Narasimha, FRS, Indian Institute of Sciences Banglore, India ? Professor Hanuman Prasad Dikshit, Good Governance & Planning, Government of MP,India