Manjul Bhargava

Manjul Bhargava is an Indian Canadian American mathematician, born on 8 August 1974 in Hamilton, Ontario, who is known primarily for his contributions to number theory and was awarded the Fields Medal in 2014. He completed his doctoral dissertation, Higher composition laws, at Princeton University in 2001 under the supervision of Andrew Wiles, and Princeton appointed him a tenured full professor in 2003. His thesis generalized Gauss's classical law for the composition of binary quadratic forms, and his other results include the proof of the 15 theorem, the Bhargava factorial that answered a question of George Polya, and a proof with Arul Shankar that the average rank of elliptic curves over the rationals is bounded. He also holds the Stieltjes chair of number theory at Leiden University.