Sastra Ramanujan Prize

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 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.
• 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.

Q1: Who was Srinivasa Ramanujan?

Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of the greatest mathematical minds from India. In addition to working on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series, he significantly contributed to the analytical theory of numbers.

Source: 2024 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize