Monday, November 25, 2019

Vashishtha Narayan Singh, A mathematical genius who challenged Einstein's Theory


Vashishtha_Narayan_Singh: He was born on 2 April 1946 to Lal Bahadur Singh, a police constable, and Lahaso Devi in the Basantpur village, Bhojpur district, Bihar, India. Narayan Singh was a Child Prodigy. He completes his primary and secondary education from Netarhat Residential School, and he received his college education from Patna Science College. He received recognition as a student when he was allowed by Patna University to appear BSc and MSc within a specified time because of his intellectuality.
Singh joined the University of California, Berkeley in 1965 and received a PhD in Reproducing Kernels and Operators with a Cyclic Vector (Cycle Vector Space Theory) in 1969 under doctoral advisor John L. Kelley.
After receiving his PhD, Singh joined the University of Washington at Seattle as an assistant professor, and then returned to India in 1974 to teach at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. Later he was appointed as a faculty at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Singh was diagnosed with schizophrenia in the early 1970s.

During_NASA_Apollo_Mission: It is said that at the time of launch of Apollo, all the devices stopped working but Vashishtha Narayan started calculating. The computer malfunctioned for 30 to 35 seconds. After which he did a mathematical calculation. When the computer got fixed, his calculations and computer’s calculations were exactly the same.

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