Mathematician Vashishtha Narayan Singh passes away at 74
Patna, Nov 14: Mathematician Vashishtha Narayan Singh passes away at Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH). He was 74 years old.
Born on 2 April 1942 in Basantpur village of Bhojpur district in Bihar, Singh completed his primary and secondary education from Netarhat Residential School and college education from Patna Science College.
He 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.
Singh
received
his
PhD
(on
Cycle
Vector
Space
Theory),
in
Reproducing
Kernels
and
Operators
with
a
Cyclic
Vector
from
University
of
California,
Berkeley,
in
1969
and
worked
at
NASA
and
then
returned
to
India
in
1971
to
teach
at
IIT
Kanpur.
His
doctoral
advisor
was
John
L.
Kelley.
In 2014, Singh was appointed as guest faculty in Bhupendra Narayan Mandal University (BNMU) in Madhepura as a visiting professor.