Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy on Saturday said it was time to ponder why no Indian resident has ever won an Abel Prize for mathematics (named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel) or the Fields Medal (instituted in 1932 at the request of Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields), often described as the Nobel Prize in mathematics.
“Can we produce winners whose lifetime work is done right here in India? Can we produce another Ramanujan, who had the foresight to propose what came to be called Ramanujan’s master theorem?” he asked mathematicians at the inaugural of the three-day Alladi Ramakrishnan Centenary conference at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc).
