Q. Which Indian mathematician has been named the winner of the 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize?
Answer: Nikhil Srivastava
Notes: Nikhil Srivastava, a young Indian mathematician, has been named winner of the prestigious 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize.
He has been named the co-winner of the USD 100,000 award, along with two others for solving long-standing questions on the Kadison-Singer problem and on Ramanujan graphs. The mathematician is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, at present.
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