Can a woman make a ‘great’ mathematician insane?
Bhojpuria.com, which caters to the Bhojpuri language community, has published a report on Dr Vashishtha Narayan Singh, who is considered to be a great mathematician gone insane! Singh was born on 2nd April 1942 at Basantpur in Bhojpur district of Bihar. His father Lal Bahadur Singh used to work in the state police department. The young Vashishtha had his primary education in the village school. Thereafter, he went to Netarhat School in class VI. He got the highest marks in the matriculation (Xth) examination conducted by Bihar School Examination Board in 1962. (My Take: I am not sure if the year of his birth and passing the matriculation exams are true, but if they are then clearly Vashishtha took 20 years to pass Class Xth!) Having completed his school examination, Vashishtha took admission in Patna Science College. Dr P Nagendra, then principal of Patna Science College, realized the hidden talent in young Vashishtha and arranged an interview between Vashishtha and the great American
