Student work: Congratulations, Professor Bhargava

By Lillian Xu, Class of 2016 on May 27, 2015, 9:53 a.m.

Professor Manjul Bhargava won the Fields Medal for top mathematicians under age 40 in 2014, and students who have taken his freshman seminar watched the webcast of the ceremony in Seoul. Junior Lillian Xu compiled a video of her fellow students congratulating the professor while thanking him for the incredible class they had their freshman spring.

Princeton University mathematician Manjul Bhargava was awarded the 2014 Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, in recognition of his work in the geometry of numbers. The International Mathematical Union (IMU) presents the medal every four years to researchers under the age of 40 based on the influence of their existing work and on their "promise of future achievement."

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