The Ramanujan Contest 2021

The Srinivasa Ramanujan Trust, Mauritius and The University of Mauritius

are organizing The Ramanujan Contest 2021, which aims at popularizing
the work of Srinivasa Ramanujan and stimulating interest in Pure
Mathematics. This contest is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of
Ramanujan's death, which would otherwise have been observed during the
cancelled 2020 Contest.

Ramanujan was largely self-taught and is widely recognized as one of the greatest mathematicians of the
20th century. He rose from extreme poverty in a small village in South India to become the first Indian to
be awarded a B.A degree by research in Mathematics by Cambridge University and to be made a Fellow
of Trinity College, Cambridge. He also achieved the rare distinction of becoming a Fellow of the Royal
Society in London.

The Ramanujan Contest 2021 is a follow-up of the highly successful 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019
editions of the contest. The collected works of Srinavasa Ramanujan and his edited Notebooks are
available for consultation at the Library of the University of Mauritius

Registration
Registration for the contest is open to all Mauritian students in Upper Six and to Undergraduate and
Postgraduate Students not above the age of 32 years.

The registration will open on Monday 23rd August 2021 and will close on Thursday 26th August 2021.
Participants should register online at http://cill.uom.ac.mu/moodle/course/view.php?id=86 by Login as
Guest.

Selection Process
All registered candidates will be provided with a google form link by Thursday 2nd September 2021 to take
part in an Online Entry test of 45 minutes duration to be held on Saturday 4th September 2021 at 18 00.

Previous First Prize Winners of the Ramanujan Contests are not eligible for participation.

Additional information will be provided by email to the candidates selected for the written examinations.

Prizes
The winners of the contest will be selected by an independent jury panel. The decision of the jury for the
award will be final.

The winner of the Contest will be awarded the Srinivasa Ramanujan Gold Medal along with a cash prize
of Rs 25 000. The first runner-up will be awarded a prize of Rs 10 000 and the second runner-up will be
awarded a prize of Rs 5 000. Both runners-up will also receive the book entitled The Man who knew
Infinity.