“I think everyone is lonely whether you are in a good marriage or a bad marriage somewhere down the line you become lonely, and to get rid of that loneliness you have to try really hard.”

Indian mathematician and professor

Neena Gupta is an Indian mathematician and professor at the Statistics and Mathematics Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata. She is known for her work on the Zariski Cancellation Problem, first posed by Oscar Zariski in 1949. Her research is centered on commutative algebra and affine algebraic geometry. In these fields, she has built a reputation through work on a problem that has drawn attention in algebra for decades.