- Abhinav Kumar
Abhinav Kumar (born on
September 1 ,1980 ) is a mathematician, who works inalgebraic geometry ,number theory , andsphere packing .He received his S.B. (
2002 ) in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science from MIT, and his Ph.D. (2006 ) fromHarvard University , where he studied underBarry Mazur andNoam Elkies .He studied in
Loyola School , Jamshedpur.He is a twice Putnam fellow and has an
Erdős number of 2. He works on sphere packing in high dimensions. He won the gold medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad in the year 1998 and a silver medal in the year 1997. He also stood first in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) conducted by the IITs in the year 1998.Currently he lives in
Cambridge and works as an Assistant Professor at MIT.External links
* [http://www.math.harvard.edu/~abhinav/ Personal site] of Abhinav Kumar at Harvard University
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.