Anand Kumar

Anand Kumar (born 1 January 1973) is an Indian mathematician and a columnist for various national and international mathematical journals and magazines. He is best known for his Super 30 programme, which he started in Patna, Bihar in 2002, and which coaches economically backward students for IIT-JEE, the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). By 2015, 333 out of the 390 had made it to IITs and Discovery Channel showcased his work in a documentary.

He has been invited by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to speak on his globally acclaimed effort to mentor students from the underprivileged sections for admission to IIT.

Early life

Anand Kumar was born in Patna, Bihar. His father was a clerk in the postal department of India. His father could not afford private schooling for his children, and Anand attended a Hindi medium government school, where he developed his deep interest in Mathematics. During graduation, Kumar submitted papers on Number Theory, which were published in Mathematical Spectrum and The Mathematical Gazette.

Anand Kumar (disambiguation)

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Anand Kumar (director)

Anand Kumar is an Indian film director, writer and founder of Anand Kumar Production. He Directed Couple Bollywood Films (Delhi Hights-2007, Jugaad-2009, Zila Ghaziabad 2013 etc.).

Filmography

Personal life

Kumar is born and brought up in Delhi. He did his schooling from DTEA School, Lodi Estate and later graduated in Mass Communication from Hyderabad.

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Anand Kumar (sociologist)

Anand Kumar is a retired professor of sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, a ex-member of the Aam Aadmi Party, he contested for Lok Sabha (India's lower house of parliament) from the North East Delhi parliamentary constituency in the Indian general election, 2014 but lost to BJP candidate Manoj Tiwari.

Academic career

Kumar received an MA in Sociology at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, 1972; an MPhil. in Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, 1975; and a PhD in Sociology at the University of Chicago, 1986. He was a Lecturer in Sociology at BHU from 1979 to 1989, an Associate Professor of Sociology at JNU from 1990 to 1998, and has been a Professor of Sociology at JNU since 1998. He was Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Tufts University from January to May 2013.

Political career

Kumar was a National Executive Committee member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He contested on AAP ticket the Indian Lok Sabha elections of 2014 from the North East Delhi parliamentary constituency and came 2nd. Later on he was expelled from AAP for "Anti-Party activities" than finally along with Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan, Ajit Jha formed a new political organization called Swaraj Abhiyan and currently is a National convenor of Swaraj Abhiyan.