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Please help improving this page with more information. boomboom 09:48, 9 April 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bishwa 777 ( talk • contribs)
This says he "challenged Einstein’s theory". What was it? I think it is just a journalistic inflation in the cause of improving a story. If additional information is available, please help. - Nizil ( talk) 14:53, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
I have described him as an academic instead of a mathematician because it seems that he has not contributed any significant thing to mathematics. News coverage often described him as a mathematician but it looks like it was done to inflate the news story. He is best described as an academic instead. I think he was widely covered in the news due to his prodigal past, mental illness, tragic life, lost and found event etc. instead of his academic or mathematics career. His story was a typical "story of genius who had a bad luck". Regards, - Nizil ( talk) 16:36, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
The birthdate is doubtful. News18 says he died at the age 74, ET 72, IT/ ET says 74 but date is listed as 2 April 1942 (used in article) so he must be 77 according to it. So I am removing the birthdate and write 1940s.- Nizil ( talk) 05:01, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
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(I underlined the 2 April 1946) gives "14 November 2019 (aged 73)" not 74.
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141.155.144.53::There is a lot of misinformation and exaggerated claims about Vashishtha Narayan in the media. For example, the assertion that he worked for NASA and their he could beat computers in computational-speed has absolutely no truth. Also to blame his ex-wife for the onset of his mental illness is totally irresponsible. Vashishtha Narayan appeared to have had great potential. But due to mental illness this potential was not realized. He published only one research paper in Mathematics (as anyone can easily verify), and this paper had almost no impact on the subject. Stories about him can be a case study of myth-making in this century. It is really sad to see that newspapers and magazines have published articles without any fact-checking.
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This article was nominated for deletion on 31 October 2006. The result of the discussion was delete. |
A news item involving Vashishtha Narayan Singh was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 19 November 2019. |
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Please help improving this page with more information. boomboom 09:48, 9 April 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bishwa 777 ( talk • contribs)
This says he "challenged Einstein’s theory". What was it? I think it is just a journalistic inflation in the cause of improving a story. If additional information is available, please help. - Nizil ( talk) 14:53, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
I have described him as an academic instead of a mathematician because it seems that he has not contributed any significant thing to mathematics. News coverage often described him as a mathematician but it looks like it was done to inflate the news story. He is best described as an academic instead. I think he was widely covered in the news due to his prodigal past, mental illness, tragic life, lost and found event etc. instead of his academic or mathematics career. His story was a typical "story of genius who had a bad luck". Regards, - Nizil ( talk) 16:36, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
The birthdate is doubtful. News18 says he died at the age 74, ET 72, IT/ ET says 74 but date is listed as 2 April 1942 (used in article) so he must be 77 according to it. So I am removing the birthdate and write 1940s.- Nizil ( talk) 05:01, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
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Death date and age|2019|11|14|1946|4|2|df=y}}
(I underlined the 2 April 1946) gives "14 November 2019 (aged 73)" not 74.
DMacks (
talk) 02:49, 19 November 2019 (UTC)Copied from article insert by an IP @
141.155.144.53::There is a lot of misinformation and exaggerated claims about Vashishtha Narayan in the media. For example, the assertion that he worked for NASA and their he could beat computers in computational-speed has absolutely no truth. Also to blame his ex-wife for the onset of his mental illness is totally irresponsible. Vashishtha Narayan appeared to have had great potential. But due to mental illness this potential was not realized. He published only one research paper in Mathematics (as anyone can easily verify), and this paper had almost no impact on the subject. Stories about him can be a case study of myth-making in this century. It is really sad to see that newspapers and magazines have published articles without any fact-checking.
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion:
You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. — Community Tech bot ( talk) 05:21, 20-November, 2019(UTC)