Mathematician Adam Harper, Assistant Professor with the University of Warwick, England will be awarded the SASTRA Ramanujan prize for 2019 . Mr. Harper was awarded the prize “for several outstanding contributions to analytic and probabilistic number theory.”
About SASTRA Ramanujan prize
- The prize carries a citation and an award of $10,000 and is conferred annually on mathematicians from across the world who are less than 32 years of age, working in an area influenced by the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan.
- The award was instituted in 2005 and today is easily amongst the top five awards of this type for mathematics.
- Many previous winners, including Manjul Bhargava and Akshay Venkatesh, went on to win the Fields Medal later.
- Four mathematicians who were awarded this prize have gone on to win the Fields Medal later.
- The age limit is 32 years to commemorate the fact that Srinivasa Ramanujan accomplished a phenomenal body of work in this short span.
- Every year, this prize is awarded by SASTRA University on its campus near Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu, on Ramanujan’s birth anniversary, December 22.
