Nikhil Srivastava, an Indian computer scientist and math genius has solved a 62-year-old quantum physics problem with his team and won a top US prize. He worked with his two friends Daniel Spielman (Sterling Professor of Computer Science, a professor of statistics and data science, and a professor of mathematics) and Adam Marcus (the Chair of Combinatorial Analysis at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland). It took him 5 years to find out the solution to the Kadison-Singer problem which arose in 1959 and remained unsolved for 62 years.
He has been jointly selected for the inaugural Ciprian Foias Prize in Operator Theory by American Mathematical Society (AMS). He shared a joint statement with other awardees that they would accept this award on behalf of people who contributed to the resolution of this problem.
This is not his first award. In 2014, he has won the George Polya Prize, Michael and Shiela Held Prize in 2021 and Ciprian Foias Pr...