Fact Check: Neena Gupta is not the first Indian to win the Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians

India Today Anti-Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that the claim is misleading as three other Indian mathematicians have received the award since it was instated in 2005.

Professor Neena Gupta, a mathematician at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, was recently declared the winner of the Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians for this year.

The Kolkata-native received recognition for her "outstanding work in affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, in particular for her solution of the Zariski cancellation problem for affine spaces."Following the declaration, many netizens shared Neena's photo, congratulating the "first Indian ever" to win the prize. One such post can be seen here.