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Encyclopedia > Manindra Agrawal

Manindra Agrawal (मणीन्द्र अग्रवाल) (born 20 May 1966 in Allahabad) is a professor of computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He did his B.Tech and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His advisor was Prof. Somenath Biswas. 20 May is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Map of India. ... Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) is one of the Indian Institutes of Technology, set up in the then-industrial city of Kanpur in 1960. ... B.Tech is the short form for Bachelor of Technology. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Engineering is the application of scientific and technical knowledge to solve human problems. ... Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are the premier educational institutions for science and technology spread all over India . ... Kānpur (known as Cawnpore before 1948) is the most populous city in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. ... A professor is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Somenath Biswas is a professor of computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. ...


He co-created the AKS primality test with Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena, and won the 2002 Clay Research Award, and the 2006 Godel Prize (along with his co-authors). The AKS primality test (also known as Agrawal-Kayal-Saxena primality test and cyclotomic AKS test) is a deterministic primality-proving algorithm created and published by three Indian scientists named Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena on August 6, 2002 in a scientific paper titled PRIMES is in P... Neeraj Kayal graduated with a B.Tech from the Computer Science Department of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 2002. ... Nitin Saxena is a Doctoral student at the Computer Science Department of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... The Clay Research Award is given annually by the Clay Mathematics Institute to mathematicians to recognize their achievement in mathematical research. ...


External links

  • http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/manindra/
  • http://www.iitk.ac.in/dofa/award/bhatnagar.htm

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Fields Institute - Manindra Agrawal (141 words)
Manindra Agrawal was born in May 1966, and since 2001 he has been a full professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India.
To the great surprise of the experts, Agrawal solved this problem in August 2002, working together with two undergraduate students: Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena.
Their proof establishes the correctness of a conjecture made in 1999 by Agrawal and Biswas.
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