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Introduction to Vashishtha Narayan Singh
Born:- 2 April 1946
Died:- 14 November 2019 (aged 73)
Mathematician and scholar Vashishtha Narayan Singh was born in India on April 2, 1946, and passed away on November 14, 2019. In India, he worked as a math teacher at several different institutions from 1960 until 1970. Although there are no reliable references to support the claim that he questioned Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, he is well-liked on social media. Singh was diagnosed with schizophrenia in the early 1970s, and as a result, he spent a lot of time in and out of mental facilities. It wasn’t until 2014 that he was able to return to academics. 2020 saw the posthumous granting of the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian honor, in recognition of his achievements.
Early Years and Profession
Singh was born in the Basantpur village in the Bhojpur district in Bihar, India, on April 2, 1946, to Lal Bahadur Singh, a police policeman, and Lahaso Devi.
Singh was a young talent. He attended Patna Science undergraduate for his undergraduate studies after completing his elementary and secondary school at Netarhat Residential School. When Patna University granted him permission to sit for exams in the first year of its three-year BSc (Hons.) Mathematics programme and the MSc test the following year, he was acknowledged as a student.
Singh enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley in 1965, and under the guidance of John L. Kelley, his doctorate adviser, he graduated in 1969 with a PhD in Reproducing Kernels and Operators with a Cyclic Vector (Cycle Vector Space Theory).
Singh became an associate professor at the University of Washington after earning his PhD. In 1974, he went back to teach at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur. He served in a temporary role at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Bombay, for eight months after that. Later on, he was given a professor position at Kolkata’s Indian Statistical Institute.
Later Years
In 1973, Singh wed Vandana Rani Singh; the couple separated in 1976. Schizophrenia was later diagnosed in him. He was admitted to the Central Institute of Psychiatry in Kanke, which is now in Jharkhand, in the late 1970s since his illness was getting worse, and he stayed there until 1985.
Singh went back to his Basantpur hometown in 1987. In 1989, while traveling to Pune by rail, he vanished. He was discovered in Doriganj, close to Chhapra in the Saran district, four years later, in 1993. After that, he was accepted into Bangalore’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS). He received medical care in 2002 at Delhi’s Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS).
Singh was given a visiting professorship at Madhepura’s Bhupendra Narayan Mandal University (BNMU) in 2014.
Following a protracted illness, Singh passed away at Patna Medical College and Hospital on November 14, 2019.
Honors
In 2020, Singh received the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian honor, posthumously.
Within popular culture
In 2018, director Prakash Jha revealed plans to develop a biographical movie on Singh’s life. Ayodhya Prasad Singh, the brother of Singh, stated that no film rights had been approved, citing unresolved legal guardianship problems.
