Ramanujan Prize Winner 2021: Professor Neena Gupta has been awarded the 2021 DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for young mathematicians from developing countries. She received the award for outstanding work in affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. She is the third woman to receive the Ramanujan Prize, which was first awarded in 2005. Also, the fourth Indian to win this prestigious award.
Mathematician Neena Gupta's solution for solving the Zariski cancellation problem which is a fundamental problem in Algebraic Geometry earned her the 2014 Young Scientists Award of the Indian National Science Academy.
After receiving the award, Professor Gupta said that it is an honour to receive the award but there is a lot more to be done in the field of commutative algebra. Check below the list of Ramanujan Prize winners from 2005 to 2021.
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List of Ramanujan Prize winners (2005-2021)
| Year | Winner |
| 2021 | Neena Gupta (India) |
| 2020 | Carolina Araujo ( Brazil) |
| 2019 | Hoang Hiep Pham (vi) (Vietnam) |
| 2018 | Ritabrata Munshi (India) |
| 2017 | Eduardo Teixeira (Brazil) |
| 2016 | Chenyang Xu (China) |
| 2015 | Amalendu Krishna (India) |
| 2014 | Miguel Walsh (Argentina) |
| 2013 | Tian Ye (China) |
| 2012 | Fernando Codá Marques (Brazil) |
| 2011 | Philibert Nang (Gabon) |
| 2010 | Shi Yuguang (China) |
| 2009 | Ernesto Lupercio (Mexico) |
| 2008 | Enrique Pujals (Argentina/Brazil) |
| 2007 | Jorge Lauret (Argentina) |
| 2006 | Ramdorai Sujatha (India) |
| 2005 | Marcelo Viana (Brazil) |
Key Facts about Ramanujan Prize
- Since 2005, the Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from developing countries has been awarded every year. The award is named after the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
- The award is administered by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) jointly with the Department of Science and Technology (DST) Government of India and the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
- The Prize is given annually to an eminent Mathematician who is less than 45 years of age on 31 December of the year of the award. He or she has conducted outstanding research in developing countries by International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste and is sponsored by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India.
- In 1964, the ICTP was established by the late Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam.
- IMU is an international non-governmental and non-profit scientific organisation with an aim of promoting international cooperation in mathematics. And, the organisation is a member of the International Science Council (ISC).
- DST agreed to fund the Prize which started with the 2014 Prize. DST supports it in memory of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Srinivasa RamanujanHe was born on 22 December 1887 in Erode, India. His talent was recognised by the famous British mathematician Godfrey Harold Hardy in 1913. On Godfrey's invitation, he went to Cambridge. He made significant contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions. Several other works done by him include a partition of the whole number, hypergeometric series, and Euler's constant. He was elected to the Royal Society of London in 1918. He died on April 26, 1920. December 22 is celebrated as National Mathematics Day in India in memory of Srinivasa Ramanujan. |
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