[7] Bhargava was born to an Indian family in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, but grew up and attended school primarily on Long Island, New York.

Bhargava went on to pursue graduate studies at Princeton University, where he completed a doctoral dissertation titled "Higher composition laws" under the supervision of Andrew Wiles and received his PhD in 2001, with the support of a Hertz Fellowship.

[16] Bhargava’s PhD thesis generalized Gauss's classical law for composition of binary quadratic forms to many other situations.

His research also includes fundamental contributions to the representation theory of quadratic forms, to interpolation problems and p-adic analysis, to the study of ideal class groups of algebraic number fields, and to the arithmetic theory of elliptic curves.

[17] A short list of his specific mathematical contributions are: In 2015, Manjul Bhargava and Arul Shankar proved the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for a positive proportion of elliptic curves.

It's his exceptional talent that's so strikingIn 2008, Bhargava was awarded the American Mathematical Society's Cole Prize.

[25] The citation reads: Bhargava's original and surprising contribution is the discovery of laws of composition on forms of higher degree.

[27] In 2011, he was awarded the Fermat Prize for "various generalizations of the Davenport-Heilbronn estimates and for his startling recent results (with Arul Shankar) on the average rank of elliptic curves".

This is the first visiting professorship in the United States dedicated exclusively to raising public awareness of mathematics.