Vasistha narayan singh biography of mahatma gandhi

Indian academic (–)

Vashishtha Narayan Singh (2 April – 14 November ) was an Indian mathematician and academic. He taught mathematics at various institutes in India between the s and the s.

He is popular on social media for supposedly having challenged Einstein's Theory of Relativity but there are no credible sources that prove so. In the early s, Singh was diagnosed with schizophrenia due to which he was repeatedly in and out of psychiatric hospitals and only returned to academia in He was posthumously awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India for his contributions, in

Early life and career

Singh was born on 2 April to Lal Bahadur Singh, a police constable, and Lahaso Devi in the Basantpur village of the Bhojpur district in Bihar, India.(district Siwan in Bihar, independent India)^[1][2][3]

Singh was a child prodigy.^[1] He received his primary and secondary education from Netarhat R