tech2 News StaffDec 11, 2019 11:30:07 IST
A mathematics professor from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata has become the youngest person to ever receive the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize at the age of 35.Dr Neena Guptawasawarded the Prizeforhaving solved a 70-year-old mathematics puzzle called the Zariski Cancellation Problem.Dr Guptais not just the youngest, but alsoonlythe third woman to win the honourtill date.
Gupta is an Associate Professor at the Statistics and Mathematics Unit at ISI, Kolkata. She graduated with an Honours in Mathematics from Bethune College, Kolkata in 2006, after whichshe went on tostudy Mathematics at the post-graduate level from ISI. She entered the Indian academic ring witha PhD in Algebraic Geometry.Guptahasalso won theIndian National Science AcademyYoung Scientist Award in 2014 for her work on theZariski Cancellation Problem, soon after she first published her research paper on it in 2014.
Mathematician Dr Neena Gupta shines as the youngest Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awardee ever. Image: Research Matters
Inrecent years, Dr Gupta has provided solutions to two open problems in mathematics one, posed by Oscar Zariski (1899-1986), one of the founders of modern Algebraic Geometry.Gupta describes these open mathematical conjectures as problems which can be easily explained to mathematicians but are very difficult to solve, in an interview with Research Matters. The 'Zariski Cancellation Problem', which has earned Gupta the SSB prize,hasintrigued mathematicians around the globe ever since a version of it was proposed by O Zariski in 1949.
Bythe early 21st century, several eminent mathematicians had triedtheir hand at asolve forthe Zariski Cancellation Problem, which remained open for about 70 years before Gupta's complete solution came alongin 2014.
"I knew this problem right from my PhD days, but I never imagined that I will be able to solve it," shetold Research Matters. The solutions provided by Dr Gupta have given both insights and inspiration to young researchers as they can initiate research into other associated conjectures, which remain open.
[For a deeper dive into the mathematics and complexities of her solution, head here.]
The Zariski Cancellation Problem is a 70-year-old algebraic problem.
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize is announced every year on 26 September to celebrate the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research's (CSIR) Foundation Day.This prize is given out to recognise a handful of scientists and researchers across many disciplines for having madeoutstanding contributions to science and technology in India.The awards are given outacross seven categories,andinclude a citation, a commemorative plaque, a cashprize of Rs 5 lakh, and additionally, an endowment of 15,000 per month up to the age of 65 years. They receive an award from the Prime Minister.
There are seven categories in the following disciplines- Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Medical Sciences, Physical Sciences.
Twelve scientists from different institutions across the country have been chosen for the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for 2019. The winners of the awards include Dr Kayarat Saikrishnan of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune and Dr Soumen Basak of National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi (biological sciences), Dr Raghavan B Sunoj of IIT, Bombay and Dr Tapas Kumar Maji of Jawahar Lal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru (Chemical Sciences), and Dr Dishant Mayur Bhai Pancholi of Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, and Dr Neena Gupta of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (Mathematical Sciences).
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar on the postage stamp. Image credit: Wikipedia
The other scientists on the list also include Dr Dheeraj Kumar of International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi and Dr Mohammad Javed Ali of LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad (Medical Sciences), Dr Aninda Sinha of IISc, Bengaluru, and Dr Shankar Ghosh of TIFR, Mumbai (Physical Sciences), Dr Subimal Ghosh of IIT, Bombay (Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences), and Dr ManikVarma (Microsoft Research India, Bengaluru (Engineering Sciences).
Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar was the Founder Director and the first Director-General of CSIR and is considered to be "the Father of research laboratories" in India. He got this monikerfor having established twelve nationally-recognised laboratoriesover the course of his lifetime.
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