Young Achiever: Gurugram teen wants to promote beauty of Math and its impact on everyday life Rohan Jha is the inaugural winner of Steven H Strogatz Prize for Math Communication conducted by National Museum of Mathematics in New York For Rohan Jha (16), the passion for Math was fuelled by a short video that he made at his architect mother’s request. It was the summer following his IXth grade at the Pathways School Gurgaon , when Rohan made the short video on the Birch Swinnerton Dyer (BSD) Conjecture, a difficult millennium problem in Math, that changed his life’s course. His father Pankaj Jha, a startup owner in India who had worked at the Wall Street for over 20 years, sent the video to reputed mathematicians hoping one of them might respond with encouragement. Michael Harris, professor at Columbia university, wrote back saying that he would be delighted to have Rohan as a student when the time comes, while Benedict Gross, professor at Harvard Universit...
