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- 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 for her outstanding work in affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra.
- She is the third woman to receive the Ramanujan Prize.
About Ramanujan Prize
- Ramanujan Prize was first awarded in 2005.
- It 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).
- It 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 DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize committee, composed of eminent mathematicians from around the world.
Source: TOI
