Vashishtha Narayan Singh

Early life and education

He was born on the 2nd of April, 1942 to Lal Bahadur Singh and Lahaso Devi in the Basantpur village of the Bhojpur district in Bihar, India.

He received his primary and secondary education from Netarhat Residential School, and he received his college education from Patna Science College.[3] Vashishtha Narayan Singh became a legend as a student when he was allowed by Patna University to appear in the very first year of its two-year B.Sc. (Hons.) Mathematics course.[4] His achievements are still mentioned with a sense of pride by Netarhat Vidyalaya.[5]


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.

Personal life

He married in the year 1974. He suffered from schizophrenia. After a few years of marriage, his wife left him due to his illness. He was staying in his village without any attention from the government. He died on the 14th of Nov, 2019 in Patna.

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 IIT Kanpur. After eight months, he joined TIFR, Bombay. In 1973, he was appointed as a permanent faculty in I.S.I Kolkata. In 2014, he was appointed as guest faculty in Bhupendra Narayan Mandal University (BNMU) in Madhepura as a visiting professor.

Death

Singh died on 14 November 2019 in Patna, India. His family accused the local hospital, Patna Medical College and Hospital, of negligence in the matter.

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