Princeton University Professor Manjul Bhargava Is First Canadian To Win Math’s Highest Honour

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Manjul Bhargava, who was born in Hamilton, received the Fields Medal on Wednesday in Seoul. The medal, which is math’s highest honour, was first awarded in 1936 and was named after another Canadian mathematician — John Charles Fields, who also born in Hamilton.

TORONTO – An Canadian-born mathematician has won a prestigious award often described as the Nobel Prize in math.

Princeton University math professor Manjul Bhargava, who was born in Hamilton, received the Fields Medal on Wednesday in Seoul, reported Canadian Press.

The medal, which is math’s highest honour, was first awarded in 1936 and was named after another Canadian mathematician — John Charles Fields, who also born in Hamilton.

It is managed by the International Mathematical Union, who say Bhargava is being recognized “for developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers.”

The Fields Medal and a cash prize of US$13,700 are awarded every four years to mathematicians 40 years old or younger.

Four people received the prize this year, including Maryam Mirzakhani of Iran — the first female recipient — Artur Avila, a Brazilian-born professor at the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu in Paris and Martin Hairer of the University of Warwick in England.

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.”

Another Indian origin professor Subhash Khot won the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, awarded by the International Mathematical Union at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014 held in Seoul.

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 U.S. and also spent much time in India. He received his PhD in 2001 from Princeton University and became a professor there in 2003.

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Mind should have a harmonious control over organs of perception and action.  Detachment through self-restrains brings happiness.  Penance is to keep your mind calm, cool, collected and controlled, and devoid of jealousy, anger and apathy.  Let there be no harsh words in your speech, no vanity in your mind, no conscious sinful acts by your deeds and thoughts and no backbiting echoes in your heart.  Control your mind to reach your destination; don’t let your mind be a slave to your desires.  Continence of mind opens the gates for inner peace by curbing ego and illumination of the self for an everlasting bliss.

From the Vedic point of view, the only way peace can be called real is, if the essential needs of all individuals, families, and societies have been met, live fear less, and have love and respect for all in their day to day life.  This state of peace should then be similar to a mother loving her children.  Personal peace is dependent on the peace existent in the family

One of the main reasons for the wars is human ego.  Vedas tell us to be human, full of qualities.

Those who perceive the same Supreme Being in everyone’s heart, and dwell on positivity and commonness rather than differences are not jealous.  They also see that all souls are essentially children of the same god.  They see unity, and are neither attached nor unhappy.  Vedas tell us that everyone has equal rights to use all products derived from nature, such as air, water, etc.   This basically includes everything we ever use in life.  Contrary to these actions, bad conducts, selfishness, lust, ignorance, and not following the rules of nature will lead to unhappiness.  We should not misuse any natural material.

I have tried to summarize the main gist of all Vedic topics and knowledge as discussed during the Mahasammlas in short.

Om Santih santih santih.  May there be peace, peace, peace!