5. Manjul Bhargava
As a kid, Manjul that ranked 5th on our list of best mathematicians in the world today was taught by his mother who was a math teacher, and by the time he was 14 he completed all math and computer science courses at his school. After that, he went to Harvard where he got his first two awards, the Morgan Prize and the Hoopes Prize, both in 1996.
He published 290 theorems and is also famous for proving 14 new Gaus composition laws and the average rank of the elliptic curves. From 2003 to 2012 he received six awards, among which are the Clay research award in 2005 and the Cole Prize in 2008. In 2014 he received the Fields Medal. More than enough to earn a decent spot on our list of best mathematicians in the world today, right?
