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'India-born Top Maths Prize Winner Was Remarkable Student'
Friday, 15 August 2014, 21:28 IST
Khot, 36, is now a professor in Computer Science Department at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
He bagged the prestigious Nevanlinna Prize for his "prescient definition of the 'Unique Games' problem, and leading the effort to understand its complexity and it pivotal role in the study of efficient approximation of optimization problems".
Besides Khot, another Indian-origin academician Manjul Bhargava won the Fields Medal - both awarded by the International Mathematical Union at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014, in Seoul, South Korea.
"He called me up this morning to give the news and I felt very happy that he remembered us in the midst all the international attention he is getting," Gogate said.
Gogate recalled how Khot would come to his home daily for studies, along with another group of 20-25 students.
"He would come with the textbooks, read the day's chapters, think, debate and discuss with his classmates, hammer out solutions and answers and go back," said Gogate, who retired in 1994 from Venkatrao High School.
According to Gogate, Khot never believed in exercising options - like solving any five out of 10 questions in the final exams for 100 marks.
"He would solve all the 10 questions or 200 marks worth, in the same allotted time, and with complete accuracy aided by his excellent handwriting in both Marathi and English," he said with a smile.
In fact, at Gogate's suggestion, the young Khot even studied all religious works in Hinduism, Islam, Christianity alongside his regular academics!
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Source: IANS
