Research Areas:
Number Theory, Representation Theory, and Algebraic Geometry

Prof. Manjul Bhargava is the R. Brandon Fradd Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. He earned his PhD from Princeton University in 2001 and joined the University as a Professor of Mathematics in 2003, becoming the second youngest full professor in the University.

Prof. Bhargava’s primary research interests include number theory, representation theory, and algebraic geometry. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has received numerous awards, including 2012 Infosys Prize in mathematics, Fermat Prize in 2011, the AMS Cole Prize for number theory in 2008, the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize and the Blumenthal Award in 2005, a Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering in 2004, and the MAA Merten M. Hasse Prize for Exposition in 2003. Prof. Bhargava’s excellence has been duly recognized in his twenties when he received quite a few notable awards including the AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Mathematics in 1997, the Hoopes Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Work and Research from Harvard University in 1996, and three Derek Bok Awards for Excellence in Teaching (1993-95). In 2014, Prof. Bhargava was awarded the prestigious Fields Medal, which is often described as the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics” for his work on developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers and applying them in elliptic curves.