his startling recent results (with Arul Shankar) on the average rank of elliptic curves". In 2011, he delivered the Hedrick lectures of the MAA in Lexington, Kentucky. He was also the 2011 Simons Lecturer at MIT. In 2012, Bhargava was named an inaugural recipient of the Simons Investigator Award, and became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in its inaugural class of fellows. He was awarded the 2012 Infosys Prize in mathematics for his "extraordinarily original work in algebraic number theory, which has revolutionized the way in which number fields and elliptic curves are counted". In 2013, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2014, Bhargava was awarded the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul for "developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers, which he applied to count rings of small rank and to bound the average rank of elliptic curves". In 2015, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award of India. In 2017, Bhargava was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2018 Bhargava was named as the inaugural occupant of The Distinguished Chair for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics at The National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath). This is the first visiting professorship in the United States dedicated exclusively to raising public awareness of mathematics. Selected publications See also Indians in the New York City metropolitan area References External links Manjul Bhargava at NPR Manjul Bhargava at ICTS Article in The Hindu on Bhargava winning the SASTRA prize Princeton University article by Steven Schultz 1974 births Living people 21st-century Indian mathematicians Canadian mathematicians Canadian people of Indian descent Clay Research Award recipients Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Foreign Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy Indian number theorists Fields Medalists Harvard University alumni Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Academic staff of Leiden University Princeton University alumni Princeton University faculty Recipients of the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize People from Hamilton, Ontario People from North Massapequa, New York American academics of Indian descent Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in science & engineering Simons Investigator Canadian Fellows of the Royal Society