16 Facts About Manjul Bhargava

Manjul Bhargava was born on 8 August 1974 and is a Canadian-American mathematician.

Manjul Bhargava is the Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, the Stieltjes Professor of Number Theory at Leiden University, and holds Adjunct Professorships at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and the University of Hyderabad.

Manjul Bhargava was a member of the Padma Award committee in 2023.

Manjul Bhargava attended Plainedge High School in North Massapequa, and graduated in 1992 as the class valedictorian.

Manjul Bhargava obtained his AB from Harvard University in 1996.

Manjul Bhargava went on to pursue graduate studies at Princeton University, where he completed a doctoral dissertation titled "Higher composition laws" under the supervision of Andrew Wiles and received his PhD in 2001, with the support of a Hertz Fellowship.

Manjul Bhargava was appointed to the Stieltjes Chair in Leiden University in 2010.

Manjul Bhargava has won several awards for his research, the most prestigious being the Fields Medal, the highest award in the field of mathematics, which he won in 2014.

Manjul Bhargava then received a Clay 5-year Research Fellowship and the Merten M Hasse Prize from the MAA in 2003, the Clay Research Award, the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, and the Leonard M and Eleanor B Blumenthal Award for the Advancement of Research in Pure Mathematics in 2005.

In 2008, Manjul Bhargava was awarded the American Mathematical Society's Cole Prize.

In 2012, Manjul Bhargava was named an inaugural recipient of the Simons Investigator Award, and became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in its inaugural class of fellows.

Manjul Bhargava was awarded the 2012 Infosys Prize in mathematics for his "extraordinarily original work in algebraic number theory, which has revolutionized the way in which number fields and elliptic curves are counted".

In 2014, Manjul Bhargava was awarded the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul for "developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers, which he applied to count rings of small rank and to bound the average rank of elliptic curves".

In 2017, Manjul Bhargava was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 2018, Manjul Bhargava was named as the inaugural occupant of The Distinguished Chair for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics at The National Museum of Mathematics.

Manjul Bhargava was conferred a Fellowship at the Royal Society in 2019.