Rate My Professor Manjul Bhargava

Manjul Bhargava is the Robert C. Gunning *55 and R. Brandon Fradd ’83 Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. He earned an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 2001, with a dissertation titled “Higher composition laws” completed under the supervision of Andrew Wiles. Following postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Study and Harvard University, he joined the Princeton faculty as a full professor in 2003. Bhargava also holds the position of Stieltjes Professor of Number Theory at Leiden University and adjunct professorships at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and the University of Hyderabad. His primary research interests lie in number theory, representation theory, and arithmetic geometry, including the study of integer values taken by quadratic forms, composition laws on spaces of higher-degree forms, and rational points on elliptic curves.