Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician who was self-
taught and had an uncanny
mathematical manipulative ability
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Ramanujan
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Ramanujan
• Born 22 December 1887 Erode,
• Died April 1920 Chetput,
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• Residence
ma Kumbakonam ,
R a Tamil Nadu
• Fields Mathematics
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Family
• Father
K. Srinivasa Iyengar
• Mother
Komalatammal
• Spouse
S Janaki Ammal
• The family home is now
a museum
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Known for
Landau–Ramanujan constant
Mock theta functions
Ramanujan conjecture
Ramanujan prime
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Known for
Ramanujan theta function
Rumanian's sum
Ramanujan–Soldner constant
Rogers–Ramanujan identities
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Early hood
• He lent a book on advanced trigonometry
written by S. L. Loney. He completely
mastered this book by the age of 13 and
discovered sophisticated theorems on his
own.
• By 14, he was receiving merit certificates and
academic awards and showed a familiarity
with infinite series.
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When he was 16, Ramanujan came across the
book A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and
Applied Mathematics by George S. Carr. This book
was a collection of 5000 theorems, and it
introduced Ramanujan to the world of
mathematics.
By 17 he had independently developed and
investigated theBernoulli numbers and had
calculated Euler's constant up to 15 decimal places
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Awards
• he was awarded the K. Ranganatha Rao prize
for mathematics by the school's headmaster,
Krishnaswami Iyer. Iyer introduced Ramanujan
as an outstanding student who deserved
scores higher than the maximum possible
marks.
• He received a scholarship to study at
Government College in Kumbakonam
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• Ramanujan was so intent on studying
mathematics that he could not focus on any
other subjects and failed most of them, losing
his scholarship in the process .
•In August 1905he ran away from home,
heading towards Visakhapatnam. He later
enrolled at Pachaiyappa's College in Madras.
• He again excelled in mathematics but
performed poorly in other subjects such as
physiology and failed in fine arts
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• Ramanujan had an intimate familiarity with
numbers, and excelled especially in number theory
and modular function theory.
• He sent letters to three mathematicians in England
containing some of his results. While two of the three
returned the letters unopened
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Hardy
G. H. Hardy
recognized
Rumanian's
intrinsic
mathematical
ability and
arranged for him
to come to
Cambridge
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In Cambridge University
• Because of his lack of formal training, Ramanujan
sometimes did not differentiate between formal
proof and apparent truth based on intuitive or
numerical evidence. Although his intuition and
computational ability allowed him to determine
and state highly original and unconventional
results which continued to defy formal proof
until recently (Berndt 1985-1997), Ramanujan
did occasionally state incorrect results.
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Mathematical achievements
• Ramanujan's talent suggested a plethora of
formulae that could then be investigated in
depth later. It is said that Ramanujan's
discoveries are unusually rich and that there is
often more in it than what initially meets the
eye. As a by-product, new directions of
research were opened up
• One of his remarkable capabilities was the
rapid solution for problems.
Ramanujan's series for π converges extraordinarily rapidly
(exponentially) and forms the basis of some of the fastest
algorithms currently used to calculate π.
He discovered mock theta functions in the last year of his
life. For many years these functions were a mystery .
In 1918, Hardy and Ramanujan studied the partition
function P(n) extensively and gave a non-convergent
asymptotic series that permits exact computation of the
number of partitions of an integer.
1729=13+123=93+103
• During an illness in England, Hardy visited
Ramanujan in the hospital. When Hardy remarked
that he had taken taxi number 1729, a singularly
unexceptional number, Ramanujan immediately
responded that this number was actually quite
remarkable that
• It is the smallest integer that can be
represented in two ways by the sum of
two cubes
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• Unfortunately, Ramanujan's health
deteriorated rapidly in England, due perhaps
to the unfamiliar climate, food, and to the
isolation which Ramanujan felt as the sole
Indian in a culture which was largely foreign to
him. Ramanujan was sent home to recuperate
in 1919, but tragically died the next year at the
very young age of 32.
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Recognition
• A stamp picturing
Ramanujan was
released by
the Government of
India in 1962 – the
75thanniversary of
Ramanujan's birth –
commemorating his
achievements in the
field of number theory.
Recognition
• Every year on Ramanujan's birth day Indian
Institute of Technology-Madras,Chennai (IIT
Madras) pays tribute to Ramanujan by
conducting a National Symposium On
Mathematical Methods and Applications
(NSMMA)
• SASTRA Ramanujan Prize of $10,000 to be
given annually to a mathematician not
exceeding the age of 32
Selected publications by Ramanujan
• Srinivasa Ramanujan, G. H. Hardy, P. V. Seshu
Aiyar, B. M. Wilson, Bruce C. Berndt
(2000). Collected Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
• This book was originally published in 1927 after
Ramanujan's death. It contains the 37 papers
published in professional journals by Ramanujan
during his lifetime. The third re-print contains
additional commentary by Bruce C. Berndt.
• S. Ramanujan (1957). Notebooks (2 Volumes).
Bombay: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
These books contain photo copies of the original
notebooks as written by Ramanujan.
• S. Ramanujan (1988). The Lost Notebook and
Other Unpublished Papers. New Delhi Narosa.
This book contains photo copies of the pages of
the "Lost Notebook".
• Problems posed by Ramanujan, Journal of the
Indian Mathematical Society
