Biography
Bhargava's mother, Mira Bhargava, is a mathematician at Hofstra University and his father a chemist. Bhargava grew up in Long Island, New York. Manjul Bhargava completed all of his high school math and computer courses by age 14. He attended Plainedge High School, graduating in 1992 as the class valedictorian. He obtained his B.A. from Harvard University in 1996. For his research as an undergraduate, he was awarded the 1996 Morgan Prize. Bhargava went on to receive his doctorate from Princeton in 2001, supervised by Andrew Wiles. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2001-02. Princeton hired him at the rank of tenured full professor within only two years of finishing graduate school, which is considered a record in the Ivy League.
Bhargava is also an accomplished tabla player, having studied under gurus such as Zakir Hussain. He has also studied Sanskrit. His grandfather Purushottam Lal Bhargava is a well-known scholar of Sanskrit and ancient Indian history.
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