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Neena Gupta receives 'Ramanujan Award 2021'

Category : Awards
Published on: December 16 2021 Share on facebook

  • The Ramanujan Prize 2021 has been awarded to Neena Gupta, a professor, and mathematician at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata.
  • Neena Gupta received this honour for her outstanding contributions to affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, particularly for her solution to the Zariski cancellation problem for affine spaces.
  • Neena is the third woman to win the Ramanujan Prize, and the fourth Indian to do so. The other three women who have won the award are all affiliated with the ISI Kolkata.
  • Ritabrata Munshi and Amalendu Krishna are two additional Indian mathematicians who have earned the Ramanujan Prize from ISI, in addition to Neena Gupta.
  • The 2021 Ramanujan Prize is jointly awarded by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy), International Mathematical Union (IMU), and the department of science and technology under the Government of India.
  • Neena Gupta has also been awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2019.
  • The Ramanujan Prize is awarded internationally to young mathematicians under the age of 45 for outstanding contributions to their field.
  • In 2004, the Ramanujan Prize was instituted. In 2005, Brazilian mathematician Marcello Viana received the award for the first time.
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