The 2014 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize has been awarded to Dr. James Maynard of Oxford University and the University of Montreal, Canada for his contribution to Number theory, especially in the field of Prime Numbers.
The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was established in 2005 and is awarded annually for outstanding contributions by young mathematicians to areas influenced by Srinivasa Ramanujan. The age limit for the prize has been set at 32 because Ramanujan achieved so much in his brief life of 32 years. The prize will be awarded during December 21-22 at the International Conference on Number Theory at SASTRA University in Kumbakonam (Ramanujan's hometown) where the prize has been given annually.