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Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar [a] (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician.Often regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then ...
At the turn of the twentieth century, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a struggling and indigent citizen in the city of Madras in India working at menial jobs at the edge of poverty. . While performing his menial labour, his employers notice that he seems to have exceptional skills in mathematics and they begin to make use of him for rudimentary accounting tas
Srinivasa Ramanujan: Mathematical prodigy Srinivasan Varadarajan: Chemist and Padma Bhushan awardee Tanjore R. Anantharaman: Materials scientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1967) Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan: Plant pathologist and Padma Bhushan (1974) awardee Udupi Ramachandra Rao: 1952 BSc space scientist, Padma Vibhushan (2017) V ...
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan is a biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, written in 1991 by Robert Kanigel.The book gives a detailed account of his upbringing in India, his mathematical achievements and his mathematical collaboration with mathematician G. H. Hardy.
Starting in 1914, Hardy was the mentor of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, a relationship that has become celebrated. [5] Hardy almost immediately recognised Ramanujan's extraordinary albeit untutored brilliance, and Hardy and Ramanujan became close collaborators. [6]
The Indian government declared 22 December to be celebrated as National Mathematics Day every year to mark the birth anniversary of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. It was introduced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 26 December 2011 at Madras University , to mark the 125th birth anniversary of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa ...
The seeds of the Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics were sown when the "Ramanujan Institute of Mathematics" was established by Alagappa Chettiar on 26 January 1950 as a memorial to the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. It was governed by the Asoka Charitable Trust, Karaikudi, and was located at Krishna Vilas, Vepery, Chennai.
The Ramanujan Journal; Ramanujan Math Park; Ramanujan Mathematical Society; Ramanujan prime; Ramanujan summation; Ramanujan tau function; Ramanujan theta function; Ramanujan–Nagell equation; Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture; Ramanujan–Sato series; Ramanujan–Soldner constant; Ramanujan's congruences; Ramanujan's lost notebook; Ramanujan's ...