Born: July 22, 1930, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Died: November 2, 2012, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America.

Higher Education: BSc in Mathematics at the Royal Institute of Science of University of Mumbai (Mumbai, India), AM and PhD at the Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Of America).

Main Publications: 

• Local rings of high embedding dimension, American Journal of Mathematics, 1967
• Embeddings of the line in the plane, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 1975
• Lectures on expansion techniques in algebraic geometry, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Lectures on Mathematics and Physics, 1977.

Knows for:

• Abhyankar’s conjecture
• Abhyankar’s lemma
• Abhyankar’s inequality
• Abhyankar–Moh theorem.