2 Indian-origin academicians win maths global prizes

[IndoCarib]

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 Mathematical Union (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 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.”

Khot was awarded the Nevanlinna Prize for his “prescient definition of the ‘Unique Games’ problem, and leading the effort to understand its complexity and its pivotal role in the study of efficient approximation of optimisation problems.”

His work has led to breakthroughs in algorithmic design and approximation hardness and to 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 a professor there in 2003.

2 Indian-origin academicians win maths global prizes | The Indian Express

 

[Viny]

Indian are historically famous for mathematical achievements, its just that it took long time for western world to realize it.

 

[IndoCarib]

Indian are historically famous for mathematical achievements, its just that it took long time for western world to realize it.

Right. After all we invented numbers

 

[Devdas]

Right. After all we invented numbers

It's sad that education across the world is eurocentric to the point of blatantly lying. When you ask Indians about India's mathematical achievements, they can point to 0, the numbers, maybe even the decimal and binary systems; but they won't know that ideas wrongly attributed to Europeans like the "Fibonacci" numbers, "Pell's" equation, infinite series, and endless others, which in some cases were directly copied from Indian texts brought to Europe by Arab traders. These were concepts developed hundreds of years prior in India, but to this day textbooks from across the world conveniently only mention European plagiarizers.

 

[utraash]

It's sad that education across the world is eurocentric to the point of blatantly lying. When you ask Indians about India's mathematical achievements, they can point to 0, the numbers, maybe even the decimal and binary systems; but they won't know that ideas wrongly attributed to Europeans like the "Fibonacci" numbers, "Pell's" equation, infinite series, and endless others, which in some cases were directly copied from Indian texts brought to Europe by Arab traders. These were concepts developed hundreds of years prior in India, but to this day textbooks from across the world conveniently only mention European plagiarizers.

I an interested in highlighted part.... Can you post some links for above part?

Is any Indian univ offers any program in Vedic mathematics?

 

[Devdas]

I an interested in highlighted part.... Can you post some links for above part?

Is any Indian univ offers any program in Vedic mathematics?

It should be on Wikipedia, but I can offer other, more legitimate sources as well.

This is an example of an Indian mathematician almost lost to history:
Indians predated Newton 'discovery' by 250 years
Granted it's difficult to determine where calculus begins and what constitutes a definition of it, it's interesting how much of our history has been excluded or erased in favor of overrating European civilization.

 

[utraash]

It should be on Wikipedia, but I can offer other, more legitimate sources as well.

This is an example of an Indian mathematician almost lost to history:
Indians predated Newton 'discovery' by 250 years
Granted it's difficult to determine where calculus begins and what constitutes a definition of it, it's interesting how much of our history has been excluded or erased in favor of overrating European civilization.

Is there any univ offers program on vedic mathematics in India?

 

[Sahasranama]

For God's sake, this guy was BORN IN CANADA and grew up in the US.

He is either a Canadian or an American.

His parents are from Rajasthan though.

His Great Grand father was the scholar Pandit Mukut Bihari Lal Bhargava who wrote several books and lived in UP.

His Grand Father was a great scholar Dr. Purushottam Lal Bhargava and also an famous Ideologist who was a scholar in Sanskrit, Hindi, and History winning Gold Medals in B.A and M.A who wrote his first book at the age of 24 !. He did his Phd. in “India in the Vedic Age" and wrote more than 100 research articles, Dr. Bhargava also published several other highly reviewed scholarly books, including “Retrieval of History from Puranic Myths”, “Pracheen Bharat ka Itihaas” (Hindi), and “Vedic Religion and Culture”

Ironically his son left India and emigrated to Canada. ........... so much for the fathers love for India.

BTW Dr. PL Bhargava was the one who started the Sanskrit dept. in Rajasthan University and was the head of the dept. for many many years.

 

[TimeTraveller]

Great news...

 

[Devdas]

Is there any univ offers program on Vedic mathematics in India?

I wouldn't know, since I'm studying in the US currently. There are definitely programs that include learning about Vedic math, I think, but not sure whether there are any devoted exclusively to it. This was the only thing I could find:
Maharishi University of Management -> Academics -> Academic Departments -> Mathematics -> Maharishi Vedic Mathematics
I think any program you come across would be more philosophy-oriented. And to be honest, as great as Vedic math was, most of these accomplishments came long after. I think you would be better off joining a full-fledged mathematics program, and learning about the Vedic and post-Vedic tidbits on the side as a hobby with the mathematical expertise you gain.

 

[Echo_419]

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 Mathematical Union (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 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.”

Khot was awarded the Nevanlinna Prize for his “prescient definition of the ‘Unique Games’ problem, and leading the effort to understand its complexity and its pivotal role in the study of efficient approximation of optimisation problems.”

His work has led to breakthroughs in algorithmic design and approximation hardness and to 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 a professor there in 2003.

2 Indian-origin academicians win maths global prizes | The Indian Express

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