Indian-origin mathematician Manjul Bhargava awarded Fields Medal
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New Delhi: Indian-origin mathematician Manjul Bhargava has been awarded the prestigious 2014 Fields Medal at the International Mathematical Union’s (IMU) International Congress of Mathematicians held in Seoul, South Korea.
The medal recognizes outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the “promise of future achievement”.
Bhargava was awarded the medal “for developing powerful new methods in geometry of numbers, which he applied to count rings of small rank and to bound the average rank of elliptic curves,” the IMU said.
A professor of mathematics at Princeton University, Bhargava specializes in number theory. He is also an accomplished tabla player and has trained under Ustad Zakir Hussain.
The mathematician in an interview with Mint in 2012, had stressed on looking for the beauty of pure mathematics, rather than hunting for applications.
The other three Fields medal awardees are Maryam Mirzakhani, the first Iranian and the first woman to be awarded; Artur Avila, the first Brazilian to be awarded, and Martin Hairer, the first Austrian to win the medal.
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