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Even though they belonged to the brahmins who are known to be the highest caste of hinduism. Life and work of the mathemagician srinivasa ramanujan. Srinivasa ramanujan life and mathematics universitat wien. He made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series. Srinivasa ramanujan biography part 1, great mathematician. In spite of having received no formal education, this genius made unprecedented contributions to mathematical concepts such as mathematical analysis, infinite series, continued fractions, and number theory. Nearly all his claims have now been proven correct.
In 1919, ramanujan published a new proof of bertrands postulate which, as he notes, was first proved by chebyshev. He was born on december 22, 1887 at kumbakonam in the city of chennai, erstwhile madras. Mathematics genealogy project department of mathematics north dakota state university p. Srinivasa ramanujan born december 22, 1887 in erode, india was an indian mathematician who made substantial contributions to mathematicsincluding results in number theory, analysis, and infinite. Julius axelrod, nobel laureate this is the best biography of a mathematician, in fact of any scientist, that i have ever read. He is counted among the greatest mathematics thinkers of the modern period. Born in a poor brahmin family, ramanujans introduction to formal mathematics began at age 10. His fathers name was kuppuswami and mothers name was komalatammal. Carr, in three notebooks, between the years 1903 1914, before he left for england.
Life and work of the mathemagician srinivasa ramanujan k. Srinivasa ramanujan the mathematics genealogy project. During his short life, ramanujan discovered nearly 3,900 results. He was born in india a hundred years ago on december 22 of that year. When ramanujan was a year and a half old, his mother gave birth to a son, sadagopan, who died less than three months later. In the early 21st century, computers calculated pi to 31,415,926,535,897 decimal places, as well as its twoquadrillionth digit when expressed in binary 0. Srinivasa ramanujan frs was an indian mathematician who lived during the british rule in india. Srinivasa ramanujan was born december 22, 1887 in the city of erode, in his grandmothers house. Srinivasa ramanujan simple english wikipedia, the free. Srinivasa iyengar ramanujan born 22 december 1887 kumbakonam, madras presidency british india died 26 april 1920 chetput, madras, british india college government arts college pachaiyappas college cambridge university academic advisors g.
The importance of his research continues to be studied and inspires. Srinivasa iyengar was a clerk while his mother, komalatammal performed as a singer, in a temple. Srinivasa ramanujan was born on december 22, 1887 in erode, a city in the tamil nadu state of india. A note on mathematics genius srinivasa ramanujan, frs article pdf available in international journal of information technology and decision making january 2014 with 42,753 reads. The purpose of this paper is to introduce some of the contributions of srinivasa ramanujan to number theory. Srinivasa iyengar, an accounting clerk for a clothing merchant. Outside of his life in mathematics, ramanujan was a very religious person. Srinivasa ramanujan was one of indias greatest mathematical geniuses. Srinivasa ramanujan was born on december 22, 1887, in erode, india, a small village in the southern part of the country. Biography of this mathematical genius at world of biography. Srinivasa ramanujan malik blackman ramanujans life untrained. The man who knew infinity a life of the genius ramanujan.
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Ramanujans notebooks the history of the notebooks, in brief, is the following. So it is not surprising that the story of his life and the history of his times have. He is considered to be one of the most talented mathematicians in recent history. Biography of srinivasa ramanujan, mathematical genius. Original scribners hardcover edition, 1991 a fascinating account of ramanujan s life which reads like a sad romantic novel.
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