Manjul Bhargava

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Manjul Bhargava is a renowned Canadian-American mathematician known for his profound contributions to number theory and algebra. Born on August 8, 1974, he grew up in Canada and the United States and is of Indian descent. Bhargava is the R. Brandon Fradd Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University.


Academic Contributions:




  • Higher Composition Laws: Bhargava is celebrated for his work on higher composition laws, which extend the classical composition of binary quadratic forms studied by Carl Friedrich Gauss. His innovative approach has provided new insights into the composition of more complex algebraic structures.




  • Geometry of Numbers: He has developed novel techniques in the geometry of numbers, leading to significant advancements in counting number fields and understanding their properties.




  • Elliptic Curves and Rational Points: His research has impacted the understanding of rational points on elliptic curves, which has implications for solving Diophantine equations—equations seeking integer solutions.




Awards and Honors:




  • Fields Medal (2014): Bhargava was awarded the Fields Medal, often regarded as the highest honor in mathematics, for "developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers" and applying them to count rings of small rank and to bound the average rank of elliptic curves.




  • Cole Prize in Number Theory (2008): Presented by the American Mathematical Society for outstanding contributions to number theory.




  • Memberships: He is a fellow of prestigious societies including the Royal Society (FRS), the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.




Educational Background:




  • Harvard University: Bhargava completed his A.B. degree in mathematics in 1996.




  • Princeton University: He earned his Ph.D. in 2001 under the supervision of Andrew Wiles, famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.




Teaching and Outreach:



  • Bhargava is known for his dedication to teaching and mentorship, inspiring a new generation of mathematicians.

  • He actively participates in mathematical outreach programs and gives lectures aimed at making complex mathematical ideas accessible to a broader audience.


Cultural Interests:



  • In addition to his mathematical pursuits, Bhargava is an accomplished musician skilled in playing the tabla, an Indian percussion instrument. He often explores connections between mathematics and music.


Manjul Bhargava's work has significantly advanced the field of mathematics, particularly in number theory, and continues to influence ongoing research and applications within mathematics and related disciplines.

All published works
Action Title Year Authors
+ PDF Chat Rank stability in quadratic extensions and Hilbert's tenth problem for the ring of integers of a number field 2025 Levent Alpöge
Manjul Bhargava
Wei Ho
Ari Shnidman
+ A positive proportion of cubic fields are not monogenic yet have no local obstruction to being so 2024 Levent Alpöge
Manjul Bhargava
Ari Shnidman
+ PDF Chat A proof of van der Waerden's Conjecture on random Galois groups of polynomials 2024 Manjul Bhargava
+ Improved error estimates for the Davenport–Heilbronn theorems 2023 Manjul Bhargava
Takashi Taniguchi
Frank Thorne
+ PDF Chat A positive proportion of quartic fields are not monogenic yet have no local obstruction to being so 2023 Levent Alpöge
Manjul Bhargava
Ari Shnidman
+ Hermite equivalence of polynomials 2023 Manjul Bhargava
Jan‐Hendrik Evertse
Kálmán GyƑry
LĂĄszlĂł Remete
Ashvin Swaminathan
+ PDF Chat A proof of van der Waerden’s Conjecture on random Galois groups of polynomials 2023 Manjul Bhargava
+ The local-global principle for integral points on stacky curves 2022 Manjul Bhargava
Bjorn Poonen
+ On the number of integral binary n$n$‐ic forms having bounded Julia invariant 2022 Manjul Bhargava
Andrew Yang
+ On the number of monogenizations of a quartic order (with an appendix by Shabnam Akhtari) 2022 Manjul Bhargava
+ PDF Chat The density of polynomials of degree n$n$ over Zp${\mathbb {Z}}_p$ having exactly r$r$ roots in Qp${\mathbb {Q}}_p$ 2022 Manjul Bhargava
J. E. Cremona
Tom Fisher
Stevan Gajović
+ PDF Chat Squarefree values of polynomial discriminants I 2022 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
Xiaoheng Wang
+ PDF Chat An improvement on Schmidt’s bound on the number of number fields of bounded discriminant and small degree 2022 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
Xiaoheng Wang
+ On average sizes of Selmer groups and ranks in families of elliptic curves having marked points 2022 Manjul Bhargava
Wei Ho
+ Squarefree values of polynomial discriminants II 2022 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
Xiaoheng Wang
+ Integers expressible as the sum of two rational cubes 2022 Levent Alpöge
Manjul Bhargava
Ari Shnidman
+ An improvement on Schmidt's bound on the number of number fields of bounded discriminant and small degree 2022 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
Xiaoheng Wang
+ Galois groups of random integer polynomials and van der Waerden's Conjecture. 2021 Manjul Bhargava
+ On the number of monogenizations of a quartic order. 2021 Manjul Bhargava
+ The second moment of the size of the $2$-Selmer group of elliptic curves 2021 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
Ashvin Swaminathan
+ PDF Chat Elements of given order in Tate–Shafarevich groups of abelian varieties in quadratic twist families 2021 Manjul Bhargava
Zev Klagsbrun
Robert J. Lemke Oliver
Ari Shnidman
+ The density of polynomials of degree n over Zp having exactly r roots in Qp 2021 Stevan Gajović
Manjul Bhargava
J. E. Cremona
Tom Fisher
+ The density of polynomials of degree $n$ over $\mathbb{Z}_p$ having exactly $r$ roots in $\mathbb{Q}_p$ 2021 Manjul Bhargava
J. E. Cremona
Tom Fisher
Stevan Gajović
+ Galois groups of random integer polynomials and van der Waerden's Conjecture 2021 Manjul Bhargava
+ On the number of monogenizations of a quartic order 2021 Manjul Bhargava
+ The second moment of the size of the $2$-Selmer group of elliptic curves 2021 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
Ashvin Swaminathan
+ Hermite equivalence of polynomials 2021 Manjul Bhargava
Jan‐Hendrik Evertse
Kálmán GyƑry
LĂĄszlĂł Remete
Ashvin Swaminathan
+ The density of polynomials of degree $n$ over $\mathbb{Z}_p$ having exactly $r$ roots in $\mathbb{Q}_p$ 2021 Manjul Bhargava
J. E. Cremona
Tom Fisher
Stevan Gajović
+ A positive proportion of quartic fields are not monogenic yet have no local obstruction to being so 2021 Levent Alpöge
Manjul Bhargava
Ari Shnidman
+ Improved error estimates for the Davenport-Heilbronn theorems 2021 Manjul Bhargava
Takashi Taniguchi
Frank Thorne
+ Bounds on 2-torsion in class groups of number fields and integral points on elliptic curves 2020 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
Takashi Taniguchi
Frank Thorne
Jacob Tsimerman
Zhao Yang
+ The proportion of genus one curves over ℚ defined by a binary quartic that everywhere locally have a point 2020 Manjul Bhargava
J. E. Cremona
Tom Fisher
+ The proportion of genus one curves over $\mathbb{Q}$ defined by a binary quartic that everywhere locally have a point 2020 Manjul Bhargava
J. E. Cremona
Tom Fisher
+ The mean number of 2-torsion elements in the class groups of $n$-monogenized cubic fields 2020 Manjul Bhargava
Jonathan Hanke
Arul Shankar
+ A positive proportion of cubic fields are not monogenic yet have no local obstruction to being so 2020 Levent Alpöge
Manjul Bhargava
Ari Shnidman
+ The proportion of genus one curves over $\mathbb{Q}$ defined by a binary quartic that everywhere locally have a point 2020 Manjul Bhargava
J. E. Cremona
Tom Fisher
+ The local-global principle for integral points on stacky curves 2020 Manjul Bhargava
Bjorn Poonen
+ PDF Chat 3-Isogeny Selmer groups and ranks of Abelian varieties in quadratic twist families over a number field 2019 Manjul Bhargava
Zev Klagsbrun
Robert J. Lemke Oliver
Ari Shnidman
+ PDF Chat The average size of the 3‐isogeny Selmer groups of elliptic curves y2=x3+k 2019 Manjul Bhargava
Noam D. Elkies
Ari Shnidman
+ PDF Chat A positive proportion of Thue equations fail the integral Hasse principle 2019 Shabnam Akhtari
Manjul Bhargava
+ Bounds on 2-torsion in class groups of number fields and integral points on elliptic curves 2017 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
Takashi Taniguchi
Frank Thorne
Jacob Tsimerman
Yongqiang Zhao
+ A positive proportion of locally soluble hyperelliptic curves over ℚ have no point over any odd degree extension 2016 Manjul Bhargava
Benedict H. Gross
Xiaoheng Wang
+ PDF Chat The equidistribution of lattice shapes of rings of integers in cubic, quartic, and quintic number fields 2016 Manjul Bhargava
Piper Harron
+ A positive proportion of Thue equations fail the integral Hasse principle. 2016 Shabnam Akhtari
Manjul Bhargava
+ PDF Chat The mean number of 3-torsion elements in the class groups and ideal groups of quadratic orders 2016 Manjul Bhargava
Ila Varma
+ Squarefree values of polynomial discriminants I 2016 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
Xiaoheng Wang
+ PDF Chat Coregular spaces and genus one curves 2016 Manjul Bhargava
Wei Ho
+ PDF Chat ORBIT PARAMETRIZATIONS FOR K3 SURFACES 2016 Manjul Bhargava
Wei Ho
Abhinav Kumar
+ PDF Chat What is the Probability that a Random Integral Quadratic Form in<i>n</i>Variables has an Integral Zero? 2015 Manjul Bhargava
J. E. Cremona
Tom Fisher
Nick G. Jones
Jonathan P. Keating
+ PDF Chat The proportion of plane cubic curves over ℚ that everywhere locally have a point 2015 Manjul Bhargava
J. E. Cremona
Tom Fisher
+ PDF Chat On the mean number of 2 -torsion elements in the class groups, narrow class groups, and ideal groups of cubic orders and fields 2015 Manjul Bhargava
Ila Varma
+ Geometry-of-numbers methods over global fields I: Prehomogeneous vector spaces 2015 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
Xiaoheng Wang
+ Arithmetic invariant theory II: Pure inner forms and obstructions to the existence of orbits 2015 Manjul Bhargava
Benedict H. Gross
Xiaoheng Wang
+ What is the probability that a random integral quadratic form in $n$ variables has an integral zero? 2015 Manjul Bhargava
J. E. Cremona
Tom Fisher
Nick G. Jones
Jonathan P. Keating
+ PDF Chat Modeling the distribution of ranks, Selmer groups, and Shafarevich–Tate groups of elliptic curves 2015 Manjul Bhargava
Daniel M. Kane
H. W. Lenstra
Bjorn Poonen
Eric M. Rains
+ PDF Chat Ternary cubic forms having bounded invariants, and the existence of a positive proportion of elliptic curves having rank 0 2014 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
+ PDF Chat On a notion of “Galois closure” for extensions of rings 2014 Manjul Bhargava
Matthew Satriano
+ PDF Chat Binary quartic forms having bounded invariants, and the boundedness of the average rank of elliptic curves 2014 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
+ PDF Chat On the number of cubic orders of bounded discriminant having automorphism group <i>C</i><sub>3</sub>, and related problems 2014 Manjul Bhargava
Ariel Shnidman
+ A positive proportion of plane cubics fail the Hasse principle 2014 Manjul Bhargava
+ The mean number of 3-torsion elements in the class groups and ideal groups of quadratic orders 2014 Manjul Bhargava
Ila Varma
+ The geometric sieve and the density of squarefree values of invariant polynomials 2014 Manjul Bhargava
+ PDF Chat Arithmetic invariant theory 2014 Manjul Bhargava
Benedict H. Gross
+ A positive proportion of elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$ have rank one 2014 Manjul Bhargava
Christopher Skinner
+ A majority of elliptic curves over $\mathbb Q$ satisfy the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture 2014 Manjul Bhargava
Christopher Skinner
Wei Zhang
+ A positive proportion of elliptic curves over Q have rank one 2014 Manjul Bhargava
Christopher Skinner
+ Rational points on elliptic and hyperelliptic curves 2014 Manjul Bhargava
+ A positive proportion of plane cubics fail the Hasse principle 2014 Manjul Bhargava
+ The mean number of 3-torsion elements in the class groups and ideal groups of quadratic orders 2014 Manjul Bhargava
Ila Varma
+ Pencils of quadrics and the arithmetic of hyperelliptic curves 2013 Manjul Bhargava
Benedict H. Gross
Xiaoheng Wang
+ Coregular spaces and genus one curves 2013 Manjul Bhargava
Wei Ho
+ The average size of the 5-Selmer group of elliptic curves is 6, and the average rank is less than 1 2013 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
+ The average number of elements in the 4-Selmer groups of elliptic curves is 7 2013 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
+ What is the probability that a random integral quadratic form in $n$ variables is isotropic? 2013 Manjul Bhargava
J. E. Cremona
Tom Fisher
+ Most hyperelliptic curves over Q have no rational points 2013 Manjul Bhargava
+ The proportion of plane cubic curves over ${\mathbb Q}$ that everywhere locally have a point 2013 Manjul Bhargava
J. E. Cremona
Tom Fisher
+ A positive proportion of locally soluble hyperelliptic curves over $\mathbb Q$ have no point over any odd degree extension 2013 Manjul Bhargava
Benedict H. Gross
Xiaoheng Wang
+ Coregular spaces and genus one curves 2013 Manjul Bhargava
Wei Ho
+ Arithmetic invariant theory II 2013 Manjul Bhargava
Benedict H. Gross
Xiaoheng Wang
+ Quadratic and Higher Degree Forms 2013 Krishnaswami Alladi
Manjul Bhargava
David Savitt
Pham Huu Tiep
+ On the number of integral binary $n$-ic forms having bounded Julia invariant 2013 Manjul Bhargava
Andrew Yang
+ PDF Chat On the Davenport–Heilbronn theorems and second order terms 2012 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
Jacob Tsimerman
+ The average size of the 2-Selmer group of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves having a rational Weierstrass point 2012 Manjul Bhargava
Benedict H. Gross
+ Arithmetic invariant theory 2012 Manjul Bhargava
Benedict H. Gross
+ PDF Chat The density of discriminants of quintic rings and fields 2010 Manjul Bhargava
+ Ternary cubic forms having bounded invariants, and the existence of a positive proportion of elliptic curves having rank 0 2010 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
+ On a notion of "Galois closure" for extensions of rings 2010 Manjul Bhargava
Matthew Satriano
+ Binary quartic forms having bounded invariants, and the boundedness of the average rank of elliptic curves 2010 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
+ On the Davenport-Heilbronn theorems and second order terms 2010 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
Jacob Tsimerman
+ PDF Chat Error estimates for the Davenport-Heilbronn theorems 2010 Karim Belabas
Manjul Bhargava
Carl Pomerance
+ Ternary cubic forms having bounded invariants, and the existence of a positive proportion of elliptic curves having rank 0 2010 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
+ On the Davenport-Heilbronn theorems and second order terms 2010 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
Jacob Tsimerman
+ Binary quartic forms having bounded invariants, and the boundedness of the average rank of elliptic curves 2010 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
+ On a notion of "Galois closure" for extensions of rings 2010 Manjul Bhargava
Matthew Satriano
+ The density of discriminants of quintic rings and fields 2010 Manjul Bhargava
+ On 𝑃-orderings, rings of integer-valued polynomials, and ultrametric analysis 2009 Manjul Bhargava
+ Finite generation properties for various rings of integer-valued polynomials 2009 Manjul Bhargava
Paul-Jean Cahen
Julie Yeramian
+ On the average number of octahedral newforms of prime level 2009 Manjul Bhargava
Eknath Ghate
+ PDF Chat Higher composition laws IV: The parametrization of quintic rings 2008 Manjul Bhargava
+ PDF Chat The density of discriminants of $S_3$-sextic number fields 2007 Manjul Bhargava
Melanie Matchett Wood
+ Higher composition laws and applications 2007 Manjul Bhargava
+ PDF Chat Mass Formulae for Extensions of Local Fields, and Conjectures on the Density of Number Field Discriminants 2007 Manjul Bhargava
+ Higher composition laws and applications 2006 Manjul Bhargava
+ PDF Chat The density of discriminants of quartic rings and fields 2005 Manjul Bhargava
+ PDF Chat Higher composition laws III: The parametrization of quartic rings 2004 Manjul Bhargava
+ PDF Chat Higher composition laws II: On cubic analogues of Gauss composition 2004 Manjul Bhargava
+ PDF Chat Higher composition laws I: A new view on Gauss composition, and quadratic generalizations 2004 Manjul Bhargava
+ Gauss Composition and Generalizations 2002 Manjul Bhargava
+ The Factorial Function and Generalizations 2000 Manjul Bhargava
+ PDF Chat On the Conway-Schneeberger fifteen theorem 2000 Manjul Bhargava
+ Factoring Dickson Polynomials over Finite Fields 1999 Manjul Bhargava
Michael E. Zieve
+ PDF Chat Continuous functions on compact subsets of local fields 1999 Manjul Bhargava
Kiran Kedlaya
+ Generalized Factorials and Fixed Divisors over Subsets of a Dedekind Domain 1998 Manjul Bhargava
+ P-orderings and polynomial functions on arbitrary subsets of Dedekind rings. 1997 Manjul Bhargava
+ Congruence preservation and polynomial functions from Zn to Zm 1997 Manjul Bhargava
Common Coauthors
Commonly Cited References
Action Title Year Authors # of times referenced
+ PDF Chat The density of discriminants of quartic rings and fields 2005 Manjul Bhargava
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+ On the density of discriminants of cubic fields. II 1971 H. Davenport
H. Heilbronn
28
+ The Theory of Irrationalities of the Third Degree 2009 B. Delone
D. K. Faddeev
26
+ On the Class-Number of Binary Cubic Forms (II) 1951 H. Davenport
21
+ PDF Chat Higher composition laws I: A new view on Gauss composition, and quadratic generalizations 2004 Manjul Bhargava
21
+ PDF Chat Higher composition laws III: The parametrization of quartic rings 2004 Manjul Bhargava
21
+ Fourier coefficients of modular forms on G2 2002 Wee Teck Gan
Benedict H. Gross
Gordan Savin
16
+ PDF Chat On the Davenport–Heilbronn theorems and second order terms 2012 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
Jacob Tsimerman
15
+ PDF Chat A classification of irreducible prehomogeneous vector spaces and their relative invariants 1977 Masahide Sato
T. Kimura
15
+ PDF Chat The density of discriminants of quintic rings and fields 2010 Manjul Bhargava
14
+ PDF Chat Finiteness Theorems for Binary Forms with Given Discriminant 1972 B. J. Birch
J. R. Merriman
13
+ PDF Chat Binary quartic forms having bounded invariants, and the boundedness of the average rank of elliptic curves 2014 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
13
+ PDF Chat On Dirichlet series whose coefficients are class numbers of integral binary cubic forms 1972 Takuro Shintani
12
+ PDF Chat Higher composition laws II: On cubic analogues of Gauss composition 2004 Manjul Bhargava
12
+ Prehomogeneous vector spaces and field extensions 1992 D. J. Wright
Akihiko Yukie
12
+ Notes on elliptic curves. II. 1965 B. J. Birch
H. P. F. Swinnerton-Dyer
11
+ Most hyperelliptic curves over Q have no rational points 2013 Manjul Bhargava
10
+ PDF Chat Minimisation and reduction of 2-, 3- and 4-coverings of elliptic curves 2010 J. E. Cremona
Tom Fisher
Michael Stoll
10
+ PDF Chat Higher composition laws IV: The parametrization of quintic rings 2008 Manjul Bhargava
10
+ The average number of elements in the 4-Selmer groups of elliptic curves is 7 2013 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
10
+ On the Class-Number of Binary Cubic Forms (I) 1951 H. Davenport
10
+ Random Matrices, Frobenius Eigenvalues, and Monodromy 1998 Nicholas M. Katz
Peter Sarnak
10
+ PDF Chat The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves 1986 Joseph H. Silverman
10
+ Density of discriminants of cubic extensions. 1988 B. Datskovsky
D. J. Wright
10
+ PDF Chat Ternary cubic forms having bounded invariants, and the existence of a positive proportion of elliptic curves having rank 0 2014 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
9
+ The average size of the 2-Selmer group of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves having a rational Weierstrass point 2012 Manjul Bhargava
Benedict H. Gross
9
+ PDF Chat Arithmetic Subgroups of Algebraic Groups 1962 Armand Borel
Harish-chandra Harish-Chandra
9
+ PDF Chat Rings and ideals parameterized by binary <i>n</i> -ic forms 2011 Melanie Matchett Wood
9
+ PDF Chat The invariants of a genus one curve 2008 Tom Fisher
9
+ The rank of elliptic curves 1977 Armand Brumer
Kenneth Kramer
8
+ Jacobians of Genus One Curves 2001 Sang Yook An
Seog Young Kim
David C. Marshall
Susan Marshall
William G. McCallum
Alexander R. Perlis
8
+ PDF Chat Reduction of Binary Cubic and Quartic Forms 1999 J. E. Cremona
8
+ An Infinite Version of the Chinese Remainder Theorem 1991 Torsten Ekedahl
8
+ Disquisitiones arithmeticae 1801 Carl Friedrich Gauß
8
+ The average size of the 5-Selmer group of elliptic curves is 6, and the average rank is less than 1 2013 Manjul Bhargava
Arul Shankar
8
+ PDF Chat On the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer quotients modulo squares 2010 Tim Dokchitser
Vladimir Dokchitser
8
+ Random maximal isotropic subspaces and Selmer groups 2011 Bjorn Poonen
Eric M. Rains
8
+ PDF Chat Average ranks of elliptic curves: Tension between data and conjecture 2007 Baur Bektemirov
Barry Mazur
William Stein
Mark E. Watkins
7
+ The average rank of elliptic curves I 1992 Armand Brumer
7
+ Étude heuristique des groupes de classes des corps de nombres. 1990 Henri Cohen
Jacques Martinet
7
+ PDF Chat Mass Formulae for Extensions of Local Fields, and Conjectures on the Density of Number Field Discriminants 2007 Manjul Bhargava
7
+ Moduli Spaces for Rings and Ideals 2009 Melanie Eggers Matchett Wood
7
+ PDF Chat Most odd degree hyperelliptic curves have only one rational point 2014 Bjorn Poonen
Michael Stoll
7
+ The geometric sieve and the density of squarefree values of invariant polynomials 2014 Manjul Bhargava
7
+ The Average Measure of Quadratic Forms With Given Determinant and Signature 1944 Carl Ludwig Siegel
7
+ PDF Chat Arithmetic invariant theory 2014 Manjul Bhargava
Benedict H. Gross
7
+ PDF Chat The Average Analytic Rank of Elliptic Curves 2004 D. R. Heath‐Brown
7
+ Maximal linear spaces contained in the base loci of pencils of quadrics 2013 Xiaoheng Wang
6
+ On the density of discriminants of quartic fields. 1980 Andrew Marc Baily
6
+ Coregular spaces and genus one curves 2013 Manjul Bhargava
Wei Ho
6