It was announced by the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 26 February 2012 at Madras University
It was to mark the 125th anniversary of the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan’s birthday.
2012 was also celebrated as the National Mathematics Year.
On this day in 1887, Ramanujan was born at Erode, Tamil Nadu.
‘The man who knew infinity’ is his autobiography film released in 2015.
In 1918 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his research on Elliptic Functions and theory of numbers.
In 1918 he also became the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
Ramanujan found theorems to solve tricky trigonometric problems.
The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize is awarded every year to a young mathematician (below the age of 32) judged to have done outstanding work in Ramanujan's fields of interest.
The 2020 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Shai Evra of Princeton University, U.S., and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.