ramanujan award

An international prize for mathematics has been won by Ramdorai Sujatha, an Indian woman, according to a report on the Science and Development Network website (www.scidev.net). The $10 000 prize is named after Srinivasa Ramanujan, the Indian mathematics genius, a college dropout who ended up at the University of Cambridge in England during World War One.A movie about Ramanujan's passion for mathematics and his friendship with a cricket-loving university don who recognised his talent is being produced by Stephen Fry, the British actor-writer and Dev Benegal, the renowned Indian director.When your automated teller machines divide and arrange your money before coughing it up, they are all using Ramanujan's partition theory." The winner of the Ramanujan prize, was Ramdorai Sujatha, an associate professor from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. She was awarded the prize at a ceremony at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy.
The Centre was founded by Abdus Salam, the Pakistan-born physicist and Nobel prizewinner, who once said "scientific thought is the common heritage of mankind". The Ramanujan Prize is the only international prize honouring mathematicians from developing countries, including those in Africa, Latin America and Asia.