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Two NRIs win Ramanujan awards
Manjul Bhargava and K Soundararajan were conferred with prestigious award.
Two Indian mathematicians in American universities have been selected for the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2005 for their works on the number theory.
Manjul Bhargava of Princeton University and Kannan Soundararajan of the University of Michigan will be conferred the annual $10,000 award, instituted by the Thanjavur-based Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy, also known as the SASTRA deemed university.
A professor at Princeton, Bhargava formulated the higher order composition law in the number theory. Soundararajan is an expert on analytical number theory and random matrix.
The awards will be given away in December at Ramanujan's birthplace - Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu during an international number theory meet to mark his birth anniversary.
The award is named after noted mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan and is awarded to scientists who are not above 32 years. This is because he died at the age of 32, a university release in Chennai said.
