Narendra Krishna Karmarkar a famous Indian mathematician is the one behind Karmarkar’s algorithm. An algorithm is a step-by- step solution to a problem. You can call it a recipe book for mathematics.
Karmarkar’s algorithm helped to solve problems in linear programming in a novel way. He found this method and published the results while working for Bell Laboratories in New Jersey.
Karmarkar did his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay and M.S. from the California Institute of Technology. He then took Ph.D. in computer science the University of California, Berkeley.
After that, Karmarkar joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. He continues to work on new architecture for supercomputing. The digital library, IEEE Xplore, has published some of his works.
He received the prestigious Paris Kanellakis Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 2000. The Prime Minister of India also presented him the Srinivasa Ramanujan Birth Centenary Award for 1999.
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