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SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2024
- 03 Oct 2024
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Recently, the 2024 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to Alexander Dunn from the Georgia Institute of Technology, US.
- Dunn has made significant breakthroughs in the study of modular forms, half-integral weight forms, metaplectic forms, and their relationships with prime numbers and integer partitions.
- About SASTRA Ramanujan Prize:
- It was established in 2005 and given by the Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA) University, Tamil Nadu.
- It includes a cash prize of USD 10,000.
- It is awarded annually to mathematicians aged 32 or below for exceptional contributions, particularly in areas inspired by the work of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
- About Srinivasa Ramanujan:
- He was born on 22nd December 1887 in Tamil Nadu, made pioneering contributions to number theory, elliptic functions, partition theory, and hypergeometric series.
- His talent was recognized by G.H. Hardy in 1913, leading to his work at Cambridge.
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