Mahan Mj later joined the Ph.D. program in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. After earning a doctorate from UC Berkeley in 1997, he worked briefly at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai in 1998.
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Meet Mahan Mj, the mathematician monk who doesn t care for a ferrari
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Mahan Mj is a 47-year-old mathematician. He is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, and has recently won the Infosys Prize 2015 for Mathematical Sciences. He received a prize money of 65 lakhs for his groundbreaking research on geometry, most of which he has donated, like his salary, for humanitarian causes. He is also a recipient of the 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences.
A graduate and post graduate from IIT Kanpur, he did his PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and worked at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences briefly. Following his spiritual inclination, he joined the Ramakrishna Math, impressed by the life and work of Ramakrishna Paramahansa. He has widely published and presented his research in the area of hyperbolic manifolds and ‘ending lamination spaces’, and travels all ov