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Biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan was a renowned Indian mathematician born in 1887 in Tamil Nadu, India. He made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. Despite having no formal training, Ramanujan gained recognition for his work and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He left behind notebooks filled with theorems that mathematicians continue to study. Ramanujan's birthday on December 22nd is now celebrated as National Mathematics Day in India.

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Biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan was a renowned Indian mathematician born in 1887 in Tamil Nadu, India. He made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. Despite having no formal training, Ramanujan gained recognition for his work and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He left behind notebooks filled with theorems that mathematicians continue to study. Ramanujan's birthday on December 22nd is now celebrated as National Mathematics Day in India.

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Biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan

Date of Birth: 22 December 1887 Place of Birth: Erode, Tamil Nadu

• Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of India's greatest mathematical Geniuses. He made substantial

contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and

infinite series.

• In 1900 he began to work on his own on mathematics summing geometric and arithmetic series. Ramanujan

was shown how to solve cubic equations in 1902 and he went on to find his own method to solve the

quintic. The following year, not knowing that the quintic could not be solved by radicals, he tried (and of

course failed) to solve the quintic.

• By 1904 Ramanujan had begun to undertake deep research. He investigated the series ∑(1/n) and calculated

Euler's constant to 15 decimal places. He began to study the Bernoulli numbers, although this was entirely

his own independent discovery.

• He continued his mathematical work on hypergeometric series and investigated relations between integrals

and series. He was to discover later that he had been studying elliptic functions.

• Continuing his mathematical work Ramanujan studied continued fractions and divergent series in 1908.. He

devoloped relations between elliptic modular equations in 1910 and Published a brilliant research paper on

Bernoulli numbers in 1911 in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society he gained recognition for his

work. Despite his lack of a university education, he was becoming well known in the Madras area as a

mathematical genius.

• On 16 March 1916 Ramanujan graduated from Cambridge with a Bachelor of Science by Research (The

degree was called a Ph.D. from 1920 )

• Ramanujan's dissertation was on highly composite numbers and consisted of seven of his papers published

in England.

• Ramanujan Independently discovered results of Gauss, Kummer and others on hyper geometric series.

• On July 1909, during this period Ramanujan had first paper published a 17-page work on Bernoulli

numbers that appeared in 1911 in the Journal of the Indian mathematical Society.

• On 18 February 1918 Ramanujan was elected as fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
• 21 February 1918 his name appeared on the list for election as a fellow of the Royal Society of London. He

had been proposed by an impressive list of mathematicians. Namely Hardy, MacMahon, Grace, Larmor,

Bromwich, Hobson, Baker, Littilewood, and Nicholson.

• The Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras celebrates his birth day on

22nd December of every year by organizing a National Symposium On Mathematical Methods and

Applications (NSMMA) by inviting Eminent Indian and foreign scholars.

• A prize for young mathematicians from developing countries has been created in the name of Ramanujan

by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), in cooperation with the International

Mathematical Union , who nominate members of the prize committee.

• The Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA), Tamil Nadu in South India,

has instituted the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize of $10,000 to be given annually to a mathematician not

exceeding the age of 32 for outstanding contributions in an area of mathematics influenced by Ramanujan’s

work.

• Ramanujan left a number of unpublished notebooks filled with theorems that mathematicians have

continued to study

• On the 125th anniversary of his birth, India declared the birthday of Ramanujan, December 22, as 'National

Mathematics Day and also declared the year 2012 would be celebrated as the National Year of

Mathematics .

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