Vashishtha Narayan Singh

• Vashishtha Narayan Singh is a Renowned mathematician.
• He is said to have challenged Einstein’s theory of relativity and came to be known as India’s Einstein.

Background

• He was born in Basanatpur village of Bihar’s Bhojpur district on 2 April 1942.
• He moved to America in 1965 and finished his PhD on ‘reproducing kernels and operation with a cycle vector‘ from the University of California, Berkely in 1969.
• He then went on to become an associate professor at Washington University and later even worked in US Space Agency NASA where he surprised many people with his mathematic skills.
• But in 1971 he returned to India and worked at IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay and ISI Kolkata.

Interesting Facts About V N Singh

• He was fond of books, pens and diaries.
  • After he returned from the US, he brought back 10 boxes of books with him.
• At the time of launch of Apollo, the mathematical calculation done by Vashishtha Narayan were exactly same as the computer’s calculations.

Demise

• He passed away in Patna on 14 November.
• He was suffering from prolonged mental illness schizophrenia from the last 35 years.