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Ruixiang Zhang, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA will be awarded with the 2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for his outstanding contributions in mathematics.
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- Sastra Ramanujan Prize
- Contributions of Ruixiang Zhang
Sastra Ramanujan Prize
- Instituted in 2005, the Sastra Ramanujan Prize is awarded annually by SASTRA University in Tamil Nadu, India, on December 22, Ramanujan’s birth anniversary.
- The prize recognizes mathematicians from around the world who are under 32 years of age and work in fields influenced by the work of the renowned mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
- The age limit of 32 is chosen to honor Ramanujan’s exceptional contributions made in a relatively short life span.
- The prize includes a citation and a cash award of $10,000, and it has gained international recognition since its establishment.
- Past recipients of this prestigious prize include Manjul Bhargava and Akshay Venkatesh.
Contributions of Ruixiang Zhang
- Ruixiang Zhang is a young mathematician known for his significant work spanning areas such as analytic number theory, combinatorics, Euclidean Harmonic Analysis, and geometry.
- Zhang’s notable achievement includes a collaboration with Shaoming Guo, where they proved a multivariable generalization of Vinogradov’s Mean Value Theorem, based on his Princeton PhD thesis.
- This groundbreaking work, published in Inventiones Mathematicae in 2019, is considered a major milestone in the field of mathematics.
-Source: The Hindu.
