About Manjul Bhargava
Manjul Bhargava (born 8 August 1974) is an Indian Canadian-American mathematician. He is the Robert Gunning-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. In February 2026, he became the first president of the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) in New York city. His mother Mira Bhargava, a mathematician at Hofstra University, was his first mathematics teacher. For his research as an undergraduate, he was awarded the 1996 Morgan Prize.
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