Manjul Bhargava Age, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Profession	Mathematician
Known For	• Bhargava factorial • Bhargava cube • 15 and 290 theorems • Average rank of elliptic curves
Physical Stats
Height (approx.)	6' (183 cm)
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black
Career
Awards, Honours, Achievements	1996 • Morgan Prize for outstanding research in mathematics • Hertz Fellowship for graduate studies in mathematics 2002 • Named one of Popular Science magazine's 'Brilliant 10' (November) 2003 • Received the Clay 5-year Research Fellowship • Received the Merten M. Hasse Prize from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) 2005 • Clay Research Award • SASTRA Ramanujan Prize • Leonard M. and Eleanor B. Blumenthal Award for the Advancement of Research in Pure Mathematics 2008 • Awarded the American Mathematical Society's Cole Prize for contributions to laws of composition on forms of higher degree • India Abroad Face of the Future Award 2009 • Received the Face of the Future award at the India Abroad Person of the Year ceremony in New York City 2011 • Awarded the Fermat Prize for generalizations of the Davenport-Heilbronn estimates and results on the average rank of elliptic curves 2012 • Named an inaugural recipient of the Simons Investigator Award • Became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in its inaugural class of fellows • Awarded the Infosys Prize in mathematics for work in algebraic number theory 2013 • Elected to the National Academy of Sciences 2014 • Awarded the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul for contributions to the geometry of numbers and counting rings of small rank • Received the India Abroad Publisher's Prize for Special Excellence 2015 • Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award of India 2017 • Elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2018 • Named the inaugural occupant of The Distinguished Chair for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics at the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) 2019 • Conferred a Fellowship at the Royal Society
Personal Life
Date of Birth	8 August 1974 (Thursday)
Age (as of 2025)	51 Years
Birthplace	Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Zodiac sign	Leo
Nationality	Canadian-American
School	Plainedge High School, North Massapequa, New York (1992)
College/University	• Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts • Princeton University, New Jersey
Educational Qualification(s)	• AB in Mathematics from Harvard University (1996) • PhD from Princeton University (2001)
Hobbies	Puzzles, Word Games
Family
Parents	Father- Dr V P Muraleedharan (chemist) Mother- Meera Bhargava (mathematician and professor at Hofstra University)
Siblings	Brother- None Sister- 1
Favourites
Music	Classical Indian
Literature	Sanskrit Poetry

Some Lesser Known Facts About Manjul Bhargava

• Manjul Bhargava hails from an Indian family. His father, Dr. V. P. Muraleedharan, belongs to Payyanur in Kannur, Kerala.

• In the 1960s, his father moved to the United States after completing a master’s degree in Chemistry and married Meera Bhargava from Rajasthan.

• Manjul spent his childhood in Long Island, New York, where he also did the majority of his schooling.

• His first introduction to mathematics came from his mother, Mira Bhargava, who is herself a mathematician.

• At 14, he had already completed every mathematics and computer science course his high school offered.

• Manjul studied at Plainedge High School in North Massapequa, graduating in 1992 as the class valedictorian.

• Even though he often skipped classes as a child, he excelled academically, winning the First Annual New York State Science Talent Search

• Manjul later attended Harvard University, where he pursued mathematics and simultaneously engaged in diverse interests, including Sanskrit, music, table tennis, and social clubs.

• Bhargava’s passion for music led him to learn the tabla with celebrated gurus, including Zakir Hussain.
  

  Manjul Bhargava, while playing the tabla

• Bhargava met Zakir Hussain while he was an undergraduate at Harvard. At just 18, he was already teaching math courses, and Hussain invited him to visit in California. Bhargava, in an interview, talked about his first meeting with Hussain and said,
  

  I met him when I was an undergraduate student at Harvard. He came to play there, and I was so excited and inspired. I used to play with one of his students there and he introduced us. I was already teaching as an undergraduate; I was teaching some of the math courses. He introduced me saying here’s an 18-year-old who already teaches mathematics courses at Harvard.”

• In 2001, Manjul earned his PhD from Princeton University. His dissertation, titled Higher Composition Laws, was completed under the guidance of mathematician Andrew Wiles with support from a Hertz Fellowship.

• In his PhD thesis, he extended Gauss’s law for binary quadratic forms, making it possible to understand better quartic and quintic number fields and their arithmetic properties.

• In 2001, Manjul joined the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) as a visiting scholar and served in this position until 2002. He served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 2002 to 2003.
  

  Manjul Bhargava at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey

• In 2003, he became a tenured full professor of Mathematics at Princeton University.

• In 2010, he joined the Stieltjes Chair at Leiden University.

• In 2015, Manjul Bhargava and Arul Shankar confirmed the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for a significant portion of elliptic curves.

• Manjul holds a deep admiration for Sanskrit poetry.

• He learnt Sanskrit from his grandfather, Purushottam Lal Bhargava, a scholar of Sanskrit and ancient Indian history.