Vashishtha Narayan Singh

Early life and education

He was born on 2 April 1942 in Basantpur village of Bhojpur district in Bihar, India to Lal Bahadur Singh and Lahaso Devi. He received his primary and secondary education from Netarhat Residential School and college education from Patna Science College. Vashishtha Narayan Singh became a legend as a student when he was allowed by Patna University to appear in the two-year course of B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics in its very first year. His achievements are still mentioned with a sense of pride by Netarhat Vidyalaya He received Ph.D. in Reproducing Kernels and Operators with a Cyclic Vector from University of California, Berkeley, in 1969. His doctoral advisor was John L. Kelley.

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• Early life and education
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• Career
• Works
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Personal life

He married in the year 1974. He has suffered from schizophrenia. After a few years of marriage he and his wife separated due to his illness. He currently stays in his village without any attention from government.

Career

After receiving his Ph.D.(on Cycle Vector Space Theory), he worked at NASA and then returned to India in 1971 to teach at I.I.T.Kanpur.[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur], after eight months, he joined T.I.F.R. (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)Bombay. In 1973, he was appointed as a permanent faculty in I.S.I.(Indian Statistical Institution) Kolkata.In 2014, he was appointed as guest faculty in Bhupendra Narayan Mandal University (BNMU) in Madhepura as a visiting professor.

Works