Dr vashisht narayan singh biography definition
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Vashishtha Narayan Singh
Indian academic (1942–2019)
Vashishtha Narayan Singh (2 April 1942 – 14 November 2019) was an Indian mathematician and academic.
Dr vashisht narayan singh biography definition
He taught mathematics at various institutes in India between the 1960s and the 1970s. He is popular on social media for supposedly having challenged Einstein's Theory of Relativity but there are no credible sources that prove so.
In the early 1970s, Singh was diagnosed with schizophrenia due to which he was repeatedly in and out of psychiatric hospitals and only returned to academia in 2014. He was posthumously awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India for his contributions, in 2020.
Early life and career
Singh was born on 2 April 1946 to Lal Bahadur Singh, a police constable, and Lahaso Devi in the Basantpur village of the Bhojpur district in Bihar, India.(district Siwan in Bihar, independent India)[1][2][3]
Singh was a child prodigy.[1] He received his p