About SASTRA Ramanujan Prize:
- It was instituted in the year 2005.
- It is awarded every year by the SASTRA University on its campus near Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu, on Ramanujan’s birth anniversary, December 22.
- Eligibility:
- The prize is conferred annually to mathematicians from across the world who is 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.
- This award has gained global repute ever since it was instituted.
- Other recipients:Manjul Bhargava and Akshay Venkatesh
Contribution of Dunn
- Dunn is being recognized for his outstanding contributions to analytic number theory, particularly his joint work with Maksym Radziwill in solving the Kummer-Patterson Conjecture on bias related to cubic Gauss sums.
- His work represents a significant breakthrough in the field.
