Professor Neena Gupta, a mathematician and faculty member of the t(ISI), has become the fourth Indian to win Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians.
She was awarded the '2021 DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from developing countries' for her outstanding work in affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra.
Circa 2009, Neena Gupta, then a PhD student at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, approached a professor in whose paper she had come across the Zariski Cancellation Problem. Gupta had some ideas about how to crack the problem, but the professor advised her to drop it and not waste her time. While Gupta stopped actively pursuing it, it was a problem that was always haunting her, at the back of her mind.
Gupta’s ‘eureka’ moment came in 2012 when she found a workable solution. She went on to win the Indian National Science Academy’s Medal for Young Scientists in 2014 for cracking this problem, first posed in 1949 by the Russian-born American mathematician Oscar Zariski — considered the most influential algebraic geometer of his time.
Seven years later, she brought home the prestigious Ramanujan Award, announced by the Government of India on 10 December. Gupta won the DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries for her work on affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, and particularly for her solution to the Zariski Cancellation Problem for affine spaces.
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