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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 ...
He is believed to have been born in the month of Chithirai under the star Tiruvadhirai. [23] They place his life from 1017–1137, yielding a lifespan of 120 years. [ 24 ] However, based on 11th- and 12th-century temple records and regional literature outside the Sri Vaishnava tradition, modern era scholars suggest that Ramanuja might have ...
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.
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
Ramanujan's lost notebook is the manuscript in which the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan recorded the mathematical discoveries of the last year (1919–1920) of his life. Its whereabouts were unknown to all but a few mathematicians until it was rediscovered by George Andrews in 1976, in a box of effects of G. N. Watson stored at the ...
Actually, Srinivasa Aiyangar is his *father's* name (The Aiyangar part being the name of his /sub-caste/); Ramanujan is his name. He would have written his name as: S. Ramanujan; which was (and still is, to a lesser extant) a common South Indian practice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.164.108.151 07:48, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993) [1] [2] was an Indian poet and scholar [3] of Indian literature and linguistics. Ramanujan was also a professor of Linguistics at University of Chicago. Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, linguist, philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright. [4]
This is a list of notable people who have or had ovarian cancer, whose illness attracted publicity. Ovarian cancer is a cancer that forms in or on an ovary. [1] [2] It results in abnormal cells that have the ability to invade or spread to other parts of the body. [3] When this process begins, there may be no or only vague symptoms. [4]