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Indo-Canadian mathematician

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Born
( 1974-08-08 ) 8 August 1974 (age 51) , Hamilton, Ontario , Canada
Education
Harvard University ( AB ), Princeton University ( PhD )
Known for
Bhargava factorial , Bhargava cube , 15 and 290 theorems , average rank of elliptic curves
Institutions
Princeton University , Leiden University , University of Hyderabad
Thesis
Higher composition laws (2001)
Doctoral advisor
Andrew Wiles
Doctoral students
Wei Ho Alison Miller Evan O'Dorney Melanie Wood Arul Shankar Piper Harron
Website
www .math .princeton .edu /people /manjul-bhargava

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Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Hamilton
Religion
Hinduism
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
Andrew Wiles
Student of
Andrew Wiles
Field of work
number theory
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date of birth
1974-08-08
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Royal Society
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Encyclopedic overview

Manjul Bhargava FRS (born 8 August 1974) is a Canadian-American mathematician. He is the Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, the Stieltjes Professor of Number Theory at Leiden University, and also holds Adjunct Professorships at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and the University of Hyderabad. He is known primarily for his contributions to number theory.

Bhargava was awarded the Fields Medal in 2014. According to the International Mathematical Union citation, he was awarded the prize "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". He was also a member of the Padma Award committee in 2023.

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