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Arul Shankar

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Arul Shankar is an Indian mathematician at the University of Toronto specializing in number theory, particularly arithmetic statistics.

Education

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He received his B.Sc. (honours) in mathematics and computer science from Chennai Mathematical Institute in 2007. He obtained his PhD from Princeton University in 2012 under Manjul Bhargava.[1] Shankar is known for his work, with Bhargava, establishing unconditionally that the average rank of elliptic curves is bounded when ordered by naive height by [2] and [3] respectively, thus proving the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for a positive proportion of elliptic curves.

In 2018 he was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship,[4] one of the most prestigious early career research fellowships available to mathematicians.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Arul Shankar". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  2. ^ M. Bhargava and A. Shankar, Binary quartic forms having bounded invariants, and the boundedness of the average rank of elliptic curves, Annals of Mathematics 181 (2015), 191–242 https://dx.doi.org/10.4007/annals.2015.181.1.3
  3. ^ M. Bhargava and A. Shankar, Ternary cubic forms having bounded invariants, and the existence of a positive proportion of elliptic curves having rank 0, Annals of Mathematics 181 (2015), 587–621 https://dx.doi.org/10.4007/annals.2015.181.2.4
  4. ^ "2018 Sloan Research Fellows". Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Archived from the original on 1 November 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  5. ^ "The Culture of Research and Scholarship in Mathematics: Rates of Publication" (PDF). American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
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