Vijaya Kumar Murty, FRSC (born 20 May 1956) is an Indo-Canadian mathematician who obtained his BSc in 1977 from Carleton University and his PhD in mathematics in 1982 from Harvard University. He is currently head of the mathematics department at the University of Toronto. His research area is number theory. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1995. In 1996, he, along with his brother, M.