SASTRA Ramanujan Prize:
The 2024 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Alexander Dunn of the Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.
- The award was instituted by the Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA) in 2005.
- Given By: SASTRA University, Tamil Nadu, India.
- A cash prize of USD 10,000 is presented annually.
- It is awarded to individuals aged 32 and below for outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics, particularly those influenced by the work of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Srinivasa Ramanujan:
- Born: 22nd December 1887 in Erode, Tamil Nadu.
- Ramanujan made significant contributions to the analytical theory of numbers, elliptic functions, and partition theory. He also worked on hypergeometric series and Euler’s constant.
- British mathematician G.H. Hardy recognized his talent in 1913 and invited him to Cambridge, where Ramanujan’s work flourished.
