India needs better math talent to lead today's AI-driven world - Times of India

The world's biggest companies are coming to India for data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) skills. But renowned mathematicians believe the country needs to significantly improve its mathematics capabilities to be able to use these technologies to create really innovative and robust solutions – both for itself and the world. Manjul Bhargava, mathematics professor at Princeton University and winner of the Fields Medal, one of the highest honours in math, says India can't hope to lead the fourth industrial revolution, "if we don't have strong mathematical talent coming up very soon." Srinivasa Varadhan, mathematics professor at New York University, agrees. He says if you want to provide some guarantee that a certain machine learning algorithm will work the way it's supposed to, then you have to do the math.