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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 ...
In the Tamil biographical film Ramanujan (2014), actor Sarath Babu played the character Diwan Bahadur R. Ramachandra Rao ICS. The movie itself was about Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the greatest mathematicians. [2] [3]
The great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan credited his mathematical findings to Namagiri Thayar, his family's goddess. According to Ramanujan, she appeared to him in visions, proposing mathematical formulas that he would then have to verify. One such event was described by him as follows: "While asleep, I had an unusual experience.
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
Rao Sahib became a family title when the Sultanate of Bijapur conferred it on his ancestor Vedaji Bhaskar Rao Pant. His maternal grandfather was R. Ramachandra Rao, Collector of Nellore, who helped Srinivasa Ramanujan during the latter's formative years.
On 16 January 1913, Ramanujan wrote to Hardy, who Ramanujan had known from studying Orders of Infinity (1910). [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Hardy read the letter in the morning, suspected it was a crank or a prank, but thought it over and realized in the evening that it was likely genuine because "great mathematicians are commoner than thieves or humbugs of ...
Srinivasa Ramanujan, National Mathematics Day of India is celebrated on 22 December every year to mark his birth anniversary. S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan winner of Abel Prize. A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar, Indian mathematician who wrote an article on the difference between Chakravala method and Continued Fractions. [176]
Ramanujan College, University of Delhi; Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics; Srinivasa Ramanujan Institute of Technology; Ramanujan Mathematical Society; Srinivasa Ramanujan Centre at Sastra University [2] Srinivasa Ramanujan Concept School; Ramanujan Hostel, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta [3]