Manjul Bhargava
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Key facts
- 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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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hamilton
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- Leiden University
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Andrew Wiles
- Student of
- Andrew Wiles
- Field of work
- number theory
- Image
- Manjul Bhargava.jpg
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- 1974-08-08
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- 2
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- Manjul Bhargava
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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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