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INDIAN-ORIGIN ACADEMICIANS WIN MATHS GLOBAL PRIZES
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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
won the Fields Medal while Subhash Khot won the Rolf
Nevanlinna Prize, awarded by the International MathematicalUnion (IMU),
at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014 held in Seoul.
Bhargava, a professor of mathematics at Princeton University, was among the
four winners who have been awarded the Fields Medal, given out every four
years.
Iranian-born mathematician and Stanford University professor Maryam Mirzakhani
became the first woman to win the Fields Medal this year.
Bhargava was awarded the Fields Medal for "developing powerful new methods
in the geometry of numbers, which he applied to count rings of small rank and
tobound 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
ofalgebraic and analytic expertise." Khot was awarded the Nevanlinna Prize
for his "prescient definition of the 'Unique Games' problem, and leading
the effort to understand its complexity and itspivotal role in the study of
efficient approximation of optimisation problems."
His work has led to breakthroughs in algorithmic design and approximation
hardness andto new exciting interactions between computational complexity,
analysis and geometry.
Khot is a professor in the Computer Science Department at New York University's
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He has a PhD from Princeton.
Born in 1974 in Canada, Bhargava grew up in the US and also spent much time in
India.
He received his PhD in 2001 from Princeton University and became aprofessor
there in 2003.
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