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.
