- Majul Bhargava, a Canadian American born to Indian parents, has been selected for the prestigious Fields Medal.
- The medal is conferred to mathematicians of age less than 40 by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) during the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), once in 4 years.
- The IMU has described him as an accomplished mathematician with great insight and technical mastery who brings a ‘Midas touch’ to everything he works on.
- His contributions:
- Developed novel techniques to count objects in algebraic numbers that were previously considered inaccessible.
- Discovered 13 new composition laws for higher-degree polynomials.
- Counting of ‘number fields of fixed degree by discriminant’.
- Solved the case of quartic and quintic number fields.
- Showed that average rank is bounded but that the bound is also less than 1.
- Bhargava is also an accomplished tabla player who has trained under the likes of tabla maestros Pandit Prem Prakash Sharma and Ustad Zakir Hussain.
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sci-tech-and-agri/manjul-bhargava-the-midas-touch-mathematician/article6314811.ece