Manjul Bhargava was born on 8 August 1974 and is a Canadian-American mathematician.
16 Facts About Manjul Bhargava
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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.
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Manjul Bhargava attended Plainedge High School in North Massapequa, and graduated in 1992 as the class valedictorian.
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Manjul Bhargava obtained his AB from Harvard University in 1996.
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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.
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Manjul Bhargava was appointed to the Stieltjes Chair in Leiden University in 2010.
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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.
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Manjul Bhargava was conferred a Fellowship at the Royal Society in 2019.
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Manjul Bhargava was named one of Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant 10" in November 2002.
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Manjul Bhargava won the $10,000 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, shared with Kannan Soundararajan, awarded by SASTRA in 2005 at Thanjavur, India, for his outstanding contributions to number theory.
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In 2008, Manjul Bhargava was awarded the American Mathematical Society's Cole Prize.
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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.
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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".
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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".
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In 2017, Manjul Bhargava was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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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.