Our congratulations go to Professor Jacob Tsimerman who was awarded the 2015 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize recognizing young mathematicians whose work is influenced by mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
In honour or Ramanujan the award, established in 2005, is only presented to mathematicians under the age of 32 which was the age Ramanujan sadly passed away at.
Professor Tsimerman is being honoured for his work in making “deep and highly original contributions to diverse parts of number theory, and most notably to the famous Andre-Oort Conjecture. He is one of the few mathematicians to have complete mastery over two very different areas of mathematics – analytic number theory and algebraic geometry.”
Further information on the award and it’s history can be found here:
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