Vashishtha Narayan Singh | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 April 1942 Basantpur, Bhojpur District, British India |
| Died | 14 November 2019 (aged 77) Patna, Bihar, India |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Awards | Padma Shri (2020) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Netarhat Residential School Patna Science College University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | John L. Kelley |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Washington IIT Kanpur TIFR, Mumbai I.S.I. Kolkata |
Vashishtha Narayan Singh (2 April 1942 – 14 November 2019) was an Indian mathematician and academic. He taught mathematics at various institutes in India between the 1960s and the 1970s. 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 1970s, Singh was diagnosed with schizophrenia due to which he was repeatedly in and out of psychiatric hospitals and only returned to academia in 2014. He was posthumously awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India for his contributions, in 2020.