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Prof. Neena Gupta of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, solved a version of the Zariski Cancellation Problem in algebraic geometry that had been open since 1949. She received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2019, at the age of 35.
Key contributions
- Solution of the Zariski Cancellation Problem in positive characteristic (2014)
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2019); ICTP Ramanujan Prize; Infosys Prize (2024)
- Research in commutative algebra and affine algebraic geometry