Manjul Bhargava Scientist

Manjul Bhargava (born 8 August 1974) is an Indian-American mathematician. He is the R. Brandon Fradd 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 has an Erdos number of 2.

Personal facts

Birth date	August 08, 1974
Birth place	Hamilton Ontario
Nationality	Canadian American
Education	Princeton University Harvard University
Known for	Factorial 15 and 290 theorems Gauss composition laws Ranks of elliptic curves

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Scientist

awards	Clay Research Award Morgan Prize Cole Prize SASTRA Ramanujan Prize Fermat Prize Thomas T. Hoopes Class of 1919 Prize Infosys Prize Hasse Prize
doctoral advisor	Andrew Wiles
doctoral student	Melanie Wood Arul Shankar Michael Volpato Wei Ho (mathematician)
Field of study	Mathematics