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Which Indian-origin mathematician won the Fields Medal in 2014?

  1. Srinivasa Ramanujan
  2. Manjul Bhargava
  3. R. Rao
  4. Harish-Chandra

Answer: Manjul Bhargava

Manjul Bhargava, an Indian-Canadian-American mathematician, won the Fields Medal in 2014 for developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers, which he applied to count rings of small rank and to bound the average rank of elliptic curves.

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