Manjul Bhargava
Mathematician

Canadian-American Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Quick Info

Profession	Mathematician
Nationality	Canadian-American
Date of Birth	08/08/1974
Age	51 years
Birthplace	Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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Bio/Wiki

Known For	Bhargava factorial Bhargava cube 15 and 290 theorems Average rank of elliptic curves Geometry of numbers Gauss composition laws

Physical Stats & More

Height	6' (183 cm)
Eye Color	Black
Hair Color	Black

Educational Qualification(s)

School	Plainedge High School, North Massapequa, New York (1992)
College/University	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Princeton University, New Jersey
Degrees	AB in Mathematics from Harvard University (1996) PhD from Princeton University (2001)

Personal Life

Hobbies	Puzzles Word Games Music Sanskrit poetry

Family

Father	Dr. V P Muraleedharan (chemist)
Mother	Meera Bhargava (mathematician)
Siblings	1

Career

Achievements	1996: Morgan Prize for outstanding research in mathematics 1996: Hertz Fellowship for graduate studies in mathematics 2002: Named one of Popular Science magazine's 'Brilliant 10' 2003: Received the Clay 5-year Research Fellowship 2003: Received the Merten M. Hasse Prize from the MAA 2005: Clay Research Award 2005: SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2005: Leonard M. and Eleanor B. Blumenthal Award for the Advancement of Research in Pure Mathematics 2008: Awarded the Cole Prize by the American Mathematical Society 2008: India Abroad Face of the Future Award 2009: Face of the Future award at the India Abroad Person of the Year ceremony 2011: Awarded the Fermat Prize 2012: Inaugural recipient of the Simons Investigator Award 2012: Became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society 2012: Awarded the Infosys Prize in mathematics 2013: Elected to the National Academy of Sciences 2014: Awarded the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014: Received the India Abroad Publisher's Prize for Special Excellence 2015: Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award of India 2017: Elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2018: Named the inaugural occupant of The Distinguished Chair for Public Dissemination of Mathematics 2019: Conferred a Fellowship at the Royal Society 1996: Selected to lead commencement of 1600 Harvard graduates 2023: Member of the Padma Award committee
Notable Contributions	Contributed significantly to mathematics with the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. Developed a profound understanding of quartic and quintic number fields through his PhD thesis. Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. Stieltjes Professor of Number Theory at Leiden University. Adjunct Professorships at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and the University of Hyderabad. Discovered fourteen new Gauss-style composition laws. Parametrization of quartic and quintic orders in number fields. PhD thesis generalized Gauss's classical law for composition of binary quadratic forms to many other situations. In 2015, with Arul Shankar, proved the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for a positive proportion of elliptic curves. Developed powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers Discovered 13 new Gauss-style composition laws, revolutionizing understanding of Gauss composition Developed techniques for counting objects in algebraic number theory Made contributions to representation theory of quadratic forms, interpolation problems, p-adic analysis, and ideal class groups of algebraic number fields With student, proved that the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture is true at least 10 percent of the time
Current Positions	Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University Stieltjes Professor of Number Theory at Leiden University Adjunct Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Adjunct Professor at the University of Hyderabad

Favourites

Music	Classical Indian
Literature	Sanskrit Poetry

Some Lesser Known Facts

1. Manjul Bhargava comes from an Indian family; his father migrated to the U.S. in the 1960s.
2. He spent his early years in Long Island, New York, where he excelled in academics and was valedictorian.
3. His introduction to mathematics was through his mother, who is also a mathematician.
4. Bhargava completed advanced courses in mathematics and computer science by the age of 14.
5. While at Harvard University, he engaged in various interests beyond mathematics, including music and social activities.
6. He has a deep appreciation for Sanskrit poetry, having learned it from his grandfather.
7. A Rubik's Cube provided the crucial flash of insight that allowed him to revolutionize Gauss composition
8. He discovered that the rhythms of Sanskrit poetry are highly mathematical and correspond to the Fibonacci sequence
9. He worked under Andrew Wiles at Princeton, who is famous for solving Fermat's Last Theorem
10. He also spent much time in India during his upbringing

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