Indians are always known for their intelligence in field of mathematics and it has proven once again on International venue.Two Indian-origin academicians have won prestigious global prizes in the field of mathematics with one of them being awarded the Fields Medal – known as the “Nobel Prize of mathematics”.
Manjul Bhargava, the Indian-American number theorist, was one of four people awarded the Fields Medal, the top prize in mathematics, at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul on Wednesday
Fields Medal was widely considered the Nobel Prize for Mathematics and that has been broadly dominated by whites since it was instituted in 1936.Bhargava got this award 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.”
According to the award citation, Bhargava’s work is “based both on a deep understanding of the representations of arithmetic groups and a unique blend of algebraic and analytic expertise’’
Born in 1974 in Canada, he grew up primarily in the US and spent some time in India.He has been teaching at Princeton since 2003.
The Fields Medal is regarded as akin to a Nobel Prize for Mathematics and comes with a 15,000 Canadian dollar (£8,000) cash prize.
