Rajkot: Leading mathematician and founder of Super30 classes Anand Kumar was conferred this year's prestigious Ramanujan Mathematics Award at the Eighth National Mathematics Convention organised by a Rajkot-based school.
Scientists Pitamber Patel and JJ Rawal presented the cash award of Rs 20,000 to Mr Kumar. The annual award is given to a person who has at least three papers published in international journals and is involved in teaching mathematics.
The 41-year-old mathematician from Patna is better known as the founder of Super30 - an institute that offers free residential mentoring on how to crack the entrance test for IITs to 30 students selected from underprivileged families each year..
"I am planning to write a mathematics book to project the subject in an interesting way and help students learn the subject easily," Mr Kumar said after receiving the award.
Mr Kumar's papers have been published in a number of international journals including Mathematical Spectrum and Mathematical Gazette of the UK. He has been invited many times by the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society to present his papers.
Scientists Pitamber Patel and JJ Rawal presented the cash award of Rs 20,000 to Mr Kumar. The annual award is given to a person who has at least three papers published in international journals and is involved in teaching mathematics.
The 41-year-old mathematician from Patna is better known as the founder of Super30 - an institute that offers free residential mentoring on how to crack the entrance test for IITs to 30 students selected from underprivileged families each year..
Mr Kumar's papers have been published in a number of international journals including Mathematical Spectrum and Mathematical Gazette of the UK. He has been invited many times by the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society to present his papers.
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