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Who has been awarded the 2021 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians?

Who has been awarded the 2021 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians? Correct Answer Neena Gupta

The correct answer is Neena Gupta.

Key Points

  • Professor Neena Gupta, a mathematician at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, has been awarded the 2021 DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from developing countries.
  • She has been awarded for her outstanding work in affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra.
  • Professor Gupta is the third woman to receive the Ramanujan Prize.

Additional Information

  • 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).
  • Ramanujan 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.
  • The mathematicians should have conducted outstanding research in developing countries by International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste.
  • The DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize committee, composed of eminent mathematicians from around the world.
  • Professor Gupta's solution for solving the Zariski cancellation problem, a fundamental problem in Algebraic Geometry, earned her the 2014 Young Scientists Award of the Indian National Science Academy.

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