Manjul Bhargava has become the first mathematician of Indian origin to win the Fields Medal, the highest honour bestowed on scientists under the age of 40 for outstanding contribution to the field of mathematics.
Manjul Bhargava is a Indian origin, Canadian-American teaching at Princeton University. He was tipped to win the medal the last time around in 2010 but failed to achieve it.
It is often considered as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, announced at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul.
This year four persons have been selected for this award
- Manjul Bhargava, Canadian-American.
- Artur Avila from Brazil.
- Martin Hairer from Austria.
- Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian who teaches at Stanford University.
Avila is the first person from Latin American and Mirzakhani the first woman to win this award.
Bhargava was awarded the Fields Medal 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.
About Manjul Bhargava
Manjul Bhargava is a Canadian-American mathematician. Born in 1974 in Canada to migrant parents from Jaipur, is a number theorist of international repute.
He is the R. Brandon Fradd Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and is known primarily for his contributions to number theory.
He has an Erdos number of 2.
He attended Plainedge High School, graduating in 1992 as the class valedictorian.
He obtained his B.A. from Harvard University in 1996.
For his research as an undergraduate, he was awarded the 1996 Morgan Prize.
Bhargava went on to receive his doctorate from Princeton in 2001, supervised by Andrew Wiles. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2001-02.
Princeton hired him at the rank of tenured full professor within only two years of finishing graduate school, which is considered a record in the Ivy League.
Bhargava is also an accomplished tabla player, studied under gurus such as Zakir Hussain.
He has also studied Sanskrit. His grandfather Purushottam Lal Bhargava is a well-known scholar of Sanskrit and ancient Indian history.
Bhargava is also an accomplished tabla player, having studied under gurus such as Zakir Hussain.
He has also studied Sanskrit. His grandfather Purushottam Lal Bhargava is a well-known scholar of Sanskrit and ancient Indian history.
What is Fields Medal?
The Fields Medal is officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics.
It is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
The awardees are chosen in a meeting that takes place every four years.
The Fields Medal is often viewed as the greatest honour a mathematician can receive.
The Fields Medal is often been described as the "mathematician's Nobel Prize".
The prize comes with a monetary award, which since 2006 has been $15,000 (in Canadian dollars).
The colloquial name is in honour of Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields.
Fields was instrumental in establishing the award, designing the medal itself, and funding the monetary component.
The medal was first awarded in 1936 to Finnish mathematician Lars Ahlfors and American mathematician
Jesse Douglas, and it has been awarded every four years since 1950.
Its purpose is to give recognition and support to younger mathematical researchers who have made major contributions.
India hosted International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010 at Hyderabad.
In 2014 Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman as well as the first Iranian, and Artur Avila became the first mathematician from Latin America to be awarded a Fields Medal.
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