Ken Ono, vice-president, American Mathematical Society and Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics, University of Virgina. He made the remark while inaugurating the international conference on number theory at the SASTRA Deemed University campus at Kumbakonam, when he also gave away the SASTRA-Ramanujan Award to Adam Harper Assistant Professor, University of Warwick, England. Harper pointed out that the good friendship between Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy of Cambridge University led to research in number theory. Speaking on the occasion, Professor Krishnaswamy Alladi of University of Florida and SASTRA-Ramanujan Award Committee Chairman announced award earned the recognition of the royal society at England, which in its Decmber 2019 special issues of the Philosophical Transactions to commemorate the Centenary of Ramanujan’s election as FRS published a paper titled Ramanujan’s Legacy: The SASTRA prize winners.
