She was also awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2019 and the Young Scientist Award by the Indian National Science Academy in 2014.
The Ramanujan Prize is given internationally to mathematicians under the age of 45 to acknowledge their outstanding work in the field of mathematics. It was established in 2004 and was first awarded in 2005 to Brazilian mathematician Marcelo Viana.
Prior to this, three Indian mathematicians Sujata Ramdorai (2006), Amalendu Krishna (2015), and Ritabrata Munshi (2018) have been given this honor.
Women don't have brains. Where is the mind driven by them? You don't have a mind, just get things done here and there. Some such many satires are made on women. We don't understand the reason for these things and don't know why women are mentally inferior to men. Neena Gupta receiving the Ramanujan Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the field of mathematics, is a fitting answer to the nonsense.
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Education
Neena Gupta was born in Kolkata in 1984. She got her early education from Khalsa High School, Dunlop. She had a lot of interest in mathematics since school time. She received her bachelor's degree in Mathematics with Honors from Bethune College in 2006. She completed her Master's in Mathematics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in 2008. Later, in 2011 she took the degree of PhD with Commutative Algebra as her specialization under the guidance of Amartya Kumar Dutt from the Indian Statistical Institute.
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Contribution to Mathematics
In the year 2009, when Neena Gupta was pursuing her Ph.D. at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. When she was a student, she contacted a professor about whom she had to face the Zariski cancellation problem. She had some ideas on how to solve the problem, but the professor advised her to leave it and not waste her time. While she actively shied away from this problem, this one problem was always stirring in her mind.
In 2012, Neena Gupta had a 'eureka' moment to find a practical solution to the Zariski cancellation problem. She received the Indian National Science Academy's Honor for Young Scientists in 2014 for solving this problem, which was first presented in 1949 by the Russian-born American mathematician Oscar Zariski. Who is considered the most influential algebraic geometry of her time?
The Indian National Science Academy has described the problem she solved as 'the best work in algebraic geometry done anywhere in recent years'.
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Career
Neena Gupta is Professor of Mathematics at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Her primary areas of interest are commutative algebra and affine algebraic geometry. Neena Gupta was previously a Visiting Scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute and a Visiting Fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).
Neena Gupta sharing her point with Indian Express said that I feel honored after receiving this award. However, this is not sufficient. As a researcher, I think there are still many mathematical problems that we have to find solutions to. Getting an award for my work definitely motivates me to work harder in the research field.
The honor of the Indian Statistical Institute increased after Neena Gupta got this award because apart from Neena Gupta, Ritabrata Munshi, and Amalendu Krishna are professors of the Indian Statistical Institute.
According to Neena Gupta, “It is not true that girls are inherently bad at maths. There is a fear and lack of encouragement in their mind, which leads girls to have vague concepts and prevent them from excelling in this field. Mathematics is a very rational subject, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Neena Gupta attributes her rise to fame to the support her parents gave her and her belief in her abilities. She would also like to thank her husband Vishal Saraogi, a physics graduate from IISC Bangalore, who works at KPMG.
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Prize
- Invited speaker at International Congress of Mathematical (ICM) 2022
- DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries (2021)
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (2019)
- TWAS Young Affiliates (2020)
- Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2021)
- Golden Jubilee Fellowship Award, Department of Science and Technology (India) (2015)
- Inaugural Professor A.K. Aggarwal Award (2014)
- INSA Young Scientist Award (2014)
- Ramanujan Award by the University of Madras (2014)
- Associateship of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2013)
- Saraswati Kaushik Medal (2013) by TIFR Student Union for her work on the Zariski cancellation problem in positive characteristic
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