An Indian mathematician at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata named Neena Gupta 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.
The Ramanujan Prize was first awarded in 2005 and 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).
Professor Gupta is the third woman to receive the Ramanujan Prize.
The DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize committee, composed of eminent mathematicians from around the world, commented that Gupta’s work “shows impressive algebraic skill and inventiveness”.
Professor Gupta’s solution for solving Zariski cancellation problem in Algebraic Geometry earned her 2014 Young Scientists Award of the Indian National Science Academy. Her solution was described as ‘one of the best works in algebraic geometry in recent years done anywhere.’
