Just over a month ago, Senegalese Professor Mouhamed Moustapha Fall was named the 2022 winner of the Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians in Developing Countries, only the second African to do so, after Philibert Nang from Gabon in 2011. [...] "Having successfully obtained my masters degree in applied maths and benefiting from a scholarship opened to few students in Africa, I joined ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics) in Trieste, Italy, for a diploma in mathematics. I passed the entrance exams into SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies) - I was only the second African to do so - where I did my PhD in a field of research combining partial differential equations and differential geometry."
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