SASTRA-RAMANUJAN AWARD

Sept. 28, 2019

The SASTRA Ramanujan prize for 2019 will be awarded to mathematician Adam Harper, Assistant Professor with the University of Warwick, England for several outstanding contributions to analytic and probabilistic number theory.

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The prize was instituted in: 2005.
Every year, this prize is awarded by SASTRA University on its campus near Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu, on Ramanujan’s birth anniversary, December 22.
The prize is conferred annually on mathematicians from across the world who are less than 32 years of age, working in an area influenced by the Srinivasa Ramanujan. The age limit is 32 years to commemorate the fact that Ramanujan accomplished a phenomenal body of work in this short span.
Cash prize: It carries a citation and an award of $10,000
Importance: The SASTRA-Ramanujan Award has gained global repute ever since it was instituted as four mathematicians , including Manjul Bhargava and Akshay Venkatesh, who were awarded this prize have gone on to win the Fields Medal later.