Manjul Bharğava

"Earlier this year, a trio of mathematicians decided to make lemons into lemonade — and ended up making major headway on a problem that mathematicians have been thinking about for centuries."

Seven IAS scholars across all four IAS Schools, including one current Academic Trustee, have won 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships, one of the most remarkable honors for mid-career researchers, artists, and writers. 

IAS Trustee Manjul Bhargava is part of a committee that has designed the first comprehensive education policy to be adopted by the Indian government in 34 years. The policy sets India on a path to providing universal access to high-quality education.

Akshay Venkatesh, Professor in the School of Mathematics, and Manjul Bhargava, IAS Trustee and Member (2001–02) in the School, have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society.

The Royal Society is a self-governing fellowship made up of the most...

IAS Faculty, Trustees, and Members participated in ICTS at Ten, a gathering to celebrate the unity of science, on January 4–7, at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences campus in Bengaluru, India.

The event featured half-hour talks by IAS...

IAS Faculty, Trustees, and Members will participate in ICTS at Ten, a gathering to celebrate the unity of science, which takes place January 4–7, at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences campus in Bengaluru, India.

The event features half...

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Manjul Bhargava and Christopher A. Cole to its Board of Trustees. These appointments were effective May 6, 2017. Bhargava is a leading scholar in number theory with interests in combinatorics and representation theory. Cole is the founder and Chairman of Ardea Partners, an independent investment banking advisory firm based in New York, London, and Princeton.

In 1847, Gabriel Lamé proved Fermat’s Last Theorem. Or so he thought. Lamé was a French mathematician who had made many important discoveries. In March of that year he sensed he’d made perhaps his biggest: an elegant proof of a problem that had...