Srinivasa Ramanujan
Born	22 December 1887(1887-12-22) Erode, Tamil Nadu, India
Died	26 April 1920 (aged 32) Chetput, (Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India
Residence	British India,  United Kingdom
Field	Mathematician
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Academic advisor	G. H. Hardy and J. E. Littlewood
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Religion	Hindu

Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar (Tamil: ஸ்ரீனிவாச ராமானுஜன்) (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician and one of the greatest mathematical geniuses of the 20th century.^[1] With almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions in the areas of mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions. This article discusses the adherents of Hinduism. ... Tamil ( ; IPA ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamils in India and Sri Lanka, with smaller communities of speakers in many other countries. ... is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... is the 116th day of the year (117th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Leonhard Euler, considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of mathematics. ... A genius is a person of great intelligence. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Analysis has its beginnings in the rigorous formulation of calculus. ... Number theory is the branch of pure mathematics concerned with the properties of numbers in general, and integers in particular, as well as the wider classes of problems that arise from their study. ... In mathematics, a series is a sum of a sequence of terms. ... In mathematics, a continued fraction is an expression such as where a0 is some integer and all the other numbers an are positive integers. ...

Ramanujan, born and raised in Erode, Tamil Nadu, India, first encountered formal mathematics at age ten. He demonstrated a natural ability at mathematics, and was given books on advanced trigonometry by S. L. Loney.^[2] He mastered this book by age thirteen, and even discovered theorems of his own. He demonstrated unusual mathematical skills at school, winning accolades and awards. By the age of seventeen, Ramanujan was conducting his own mathematical research on Bernoulli numbers and the Euler–Mascheroni constant. He received a scholarship to study at Government College in Kumbakonam. He failed his non-mathematical coursework, and lost his scholarship. He then joined another college to pursue independent mathematical research. To make a living, he worked as a clerk in the accountant general's office at the Madras Port Trust Office.^[1] In 1912-1913, Ramanujan sent samples of his theorems to three academics at University of Cambridge. Only G. H. Hardy recognized his brilliant work, and he asked Ramanujan to study under him at Cambridge. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Trigonometry All of the trigonometric functions of an angle θ can be constructed geometrically in terms of a unit circle centered at O. Trigonometry (from Greek trigōnon triangle + metron measure[1]), informally called trig, is a branch of mathematics that deals with... In mathematics, the Bernoulli numbers are a sequence of rational numbers with deep connections in number theory. ... The Euler-Mascheroni constant is a mathematical constant, used mainly in number theory. ... , Kumbakonam (Tamil: கும்பகோணம்) is a city and a municipality in the Thanjavur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. ... The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the worlds most prestigious universities. ... G. H. Hardy Professor Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS (February 7, 1877 – December 1, 1947) was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. ...

Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3900 results (mostly identities and equations) during his short lifetime.^[3] Although a small number of these results were actually false and some were already known, most of his claims have now been proven to be correct.^[4] He stated results that were both original and highly unconventional, such as the Ramanujan prime and the Ramanujan theta function, and these have inspired a vast amount of further research.^[5] However, some of his major discoveries have been rather slow to enter the mathematical mainstream. Recently, Ramanujan's formulae have found applications in the field of crystallography and in string theory. The Ramanujan Journal, an international publication, was launched to publish work in all the areas of mathematics that were influenced by Ramanujan.^[6] In mathematics, the term identity has several important uses: An identity is an equality that remains true regardless of the values of any variables that appear within it, to distinguish it from an equality which is true under more particular conditions. ... An equation is a mathematical statement, in symbols, that two things are the same (or equivalent). ... In mathematics, a Ramanujan prime is a prime number that satisfies a result proven by Srinivasa Ramanujan relating to the prime counting function. ... In mathematics, the Ramanujan theta function generalizes the form of the Jacobi theta functions, while capturing their general properties. ... Crystallography (from the Greek words crystallon = cold drop / frozen drop, with its meaning extending to all solids with some degree of transparency, and graphein = write) is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in solids. ... Interaction in the subatomic world: world lines of pointlike particles in the Standard Model or a world sheet swept up by closed strings in string theory String theory is a model of fundamental physics, whose building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects called strings, rather than the zero-dimensional point...

Life

Childhood and early life

Ramanujan's home on Sarangapani Street, Kumbakonam.

Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 in Erode, Tamil Nadu, India, at the place of residence of his maternal grandparents.^[7] His father, K. Srinivasa Iyengar worked as a clerk in a sari shop and hailed from the district of Thanjavur.^[8] His mother, Komalatammal was a housewife and also a singer at a local temple. They lived in Sarangapani Street in a south-Indian-style home (now a museum) in the town of Kumbakonam. When Ramanujan was a year and a half old, his mother gave birth to a son named Sadagopan. The newborn died less than three months later. In December 1889, Ramanujan had smallpox and fortunately recovered, unlike the thousands in the Thanjavur district who had succumbed to the disease that year.^[9] He moved with his mother to her parents' house in Kanchipuram, near Madras. In November 1891, and again in 1894, his mother gave birth, but both children died before their first birthdays. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2304 × 3072 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2304 × 3072 pixel, file size: 1. ... is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ... , Tanjore redirects here. ... Two homemakers. ... Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a contagious disease unique to humans. ... Thanjavur district is one of the 30 districts of the state of Tamil Nadu, in southeastern India. ... , Kanchipuram, Kanchi, or Kancheepuram (also sometimes Conjeevaram) is a city and a municipality in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. ... Madras refers to: the Indian city of Chennai, formerly known as Madras, the former Indian state, now known as Tamil Nadu (Plural of Madra): Ancient people of Iranian affinites, who lived in northwest Panjab in the Uttarapatha division of ancient India. ...

On 1 October 1892, Ramanujan was enrolled at the local school.^[10] In March 1894, he was moved to a Telugu medium school. After his maternal grandfather lost his job as a court official in Kanchipuram,^[11] Ramanujan and his mother moved back to Kumbakonam and he was enrolled in the Kangayan Primary School.^[12] After his paternal grandfather died, he was sent back to his maternal grandparents, who were now living in Madras. He did not like school in Madras, and he tried to avoid going to school. His family enlisted a local constantly to make sure he would stay in school. Within six months, Ramanujan was back in Kumbakonam again.^[12] is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Medium of instruction is the language that is used in teaching. ...

Since Ramanujan's father was at work most of the day, his mother took care of him as a child. He had a close relationship with her. From her, he learned about tradition, the caste system and puranas. He learned to sing religious songs, to attend pujas at the temple and eating habits — all of which were necessary for Ramanujan to be a good Brahmin child.^[13] At the Kangayan Primary School, Ramanujan performed well. Just before the age of ten, in November 1897, he passed his primary examinations in English, Tamil, geography and arithmetic. With his scores, he finished first in the district.^[14] In 1898, his mother gave birth to a healthy boy named Lakshmi Narasimhan.^[9] That year, Ramanujan entered Town Higher Secondary School where he encountered formal mathematics for the first time.^[15] Purana (Sanskrit: , meaning tales of ancient times) is the name of an ancient Indian genre (or a group of related genres) of Hindu or Jain literature (as distinct from oral tradition). ... The term Brahmin denotes both a member of the priestly class in the Hindu varna system, and a member of the highest caste in the caste system of Hindu society. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Tamil ( ; IPA ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamils in India and Sri Lanka, with smaller communities of speakers in many other countries. ... Arithmetic tables for children, Lausanne, 1835 Arithmetic or arithmetics (from the Greek word αριθμός = number) is the oldest and most elementary branch of mathematics, used by almost everyone, for tasks ranging from simple day-to-day counting to advanced science and business calculations. ...

By age eleven, he had exhausted the mathematical knowledge of two college students, who were lodgers at his home. He was later lent books on advanced trigonometry written by S.L. Loney.^[16][17] He completely mastered this book by the age of thirteen and he discovered sophisticated theorems on his own. By fourteen, he achieved merit certificates and academic awards throughout his school career and also assisted the school in the logistics of assigning its 1200 students (each with their own needs) to its 35-odd teachers.^[18] He completed mathematical exams in half the allotted time, and showed a familiarity with infinite series. When he was sixteen, Ramanujan came across the book, A synopsis of elementary results in pure and applied mathematics written by George S. Carr.^[19] This book was a collection of 5000 theorems, and it introduced Ramanujan to the world of mathematics. The next year, he had independently developed and investigated the Bernoulli numbers and had calculated Euler's constant up to 15 decimal places.^[20] His peers of the time commented that they "rarely understood him" and "stood in respectful awe" of him.^[18] Look up Logistics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In mathematics, a series is a sum of a sequence of terms. ... In mathematics, the Bernoulli numbers are a sequence of rational numbers with deep connections in number theory. ... The Euler-Mascheroni constant is a mathematical constant, used mainly in number theory. ...

When he graduated from Town High in 1904, Ramanujan 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.^[18] He received a scholarship to study at Government College in Kumbakonam,^[21] known as the "Cambridge of South India."^[22] However, 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.^[23] In August 1905, he ran away from home, heading towards Visakhapatnam.^[24] He later enrolled at Pachaiyappa's College in Madras. He again excelled in mathematics, but performed poorly in other subjects such as physiology. Ramanujan failed his F. A. degree exam in December 1906 and again a year later. Without a degree, he left college and continued to pursue independent research in mathematics. At this point in his life, he lived in extreme poverty and was often near the point of starvation.^[25] , Kumbakonam (Tamil: கும்பகோணம்) is a city and a municipality in the Thanjavur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. ... , Visakhapatnam  (telugu - విశాఖపట్నం) (also Viśākhapattanamu, shortened and anglicized: Vizag or Vizagapatnam) is a port city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. ... Pachaiyappas College is one of the oldest educational institutions in Chennai, India. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Fine art is a term used to refer to fields traditionally considered to be artistic. ... This article is about extreme malnutrition. ...

Adulthood in India

On 14 July 1909, Ramanujan was married to a nine-year old bride, Janaki Ammal.^[26] The marriage customs of India at that time often included child marriages, with the married couple separating immediately after the ceremony, and reuniting when the parties were adults.^{[citation needed]} After the marriage, Ramanujan developed a hydrocele testis, an abnormal swelling of the tunica vaginalis, an internal membrane in the testicle.^[27] The condition could be treated with a routine surgical operation, that would release the blocked fluid in the scrotal sac. His family did not have the money for the operation, but in January 1910, a doctor volunteered to do the surgery for free.^[28] After his successful surgery, Ramanujan searched for a job. He stayed at friends' houses while he was travelling door to door around the city of Madras (now Chennai) looking for a clerical position. To make some money, he tutored some students at Presidency College who were preparing for their F. A. exam.^[29] In late 1910, Ramanujan was sick again, possibly as a result of the surgery earlier in the year. He was fearful for his health, and he even told his friend, R. Radakrishna Iyer, to "hand these [my mathematical notebooks] over to Professor Singaravelu Mudaliar [mathematics professor at Pachaiyappa's College] or to the British professor Edward B. Ross, of the Madras Christian College."^[30] After Ramanujan recovered and got back his notebooks from Iyer, he took a northbound train from Kumbakonam to Villupuram, a coastal city under French control.^[31][32] is the 195th day of the year (196th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... A hydrocele testis is an accumulation of clear fluid in the tunica vaginalis, the most internal of membranes containing a testicle. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... , “Madras” redirects here. ... The Madras Christian College in Chennai, South India, is one of the oldest colleges of the Indian subcontinent and was established in 1837. ... Villupuram is an administrative district in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. ...

Getting noticed by mathematicians

He met deputy collector V. Ramaswami Iyer who had recently founded the Indian Mathematical Society.^[33] Ramanujan, wishing for a job at the revenue department where Iyer worked, showed him his mathematics notebooks. As Iyer later recalled:

Iyer sent Ramanujan, with introduction letters, to his mathematical friends in Madras.^[33] Some of these friends looked at his work and gave him letters of introduction to R. Ramachandra Rao, the district collector for Nellore and the secretary of the Indian Mathematical Society.^[35][36][37] Ramachandra Rao was impressed by Ramanujan's work, but was doubtful that it was actually his own work. Ramanujan mentioned a correspondence he had with Professor Saldhana, a notable Bombay (now Mumbai) mathematician, in which Saldhana expressed a lack of understanding for his work, but concluded that he was not a phony.^[38] Ramanujan's friend, C. V. Rajagopalachari, persisted with Ramachandra Rao and tried to quell any doubts over Ramanujan's academic morality. Rao agreed to give him another chance, and he listened as Ramanujan discussed elliptic integrals, hypergeometric series, and his theory of divergent series which Rao said ultimately "converted me" to believe Ramanujan's mathematical brilliance.^[38] Rao: "ask him what he wanted", and Ramanujan replied that he needed some work and financial support. Rao consented and sent him to Madras. He continued his mathematical research with Rao's financial aid supporting his daily needs. Ramanujan, with the help of Ramaswami Iyer, had his work published in the Journal of Indian Mathematical Society.^[39] For the district with the same name, see Nellore district. ... , “Bombay” redirects here. ... In integral calculus, elliptic integrals originally arose in connection with the problem of giving the arc length of an ellipse and were first studied by Giulio Fagnano and Leonhard Euler. ... In mathematics, a hypergeometric series is a power series in which the ratios of successive coefficients k is a rational function of k. ... In mathematics, a divergent series is an infinite series that is not convergent, meaning that the infinite sequence of the partial sums of the series does not have a limit. ...

One of the first problems he posed in the journal was:

He waited for a solution to be offered in three issues, over six months, but failed to receive any. At the end, Ramanujan supplied the solution to the problem himself. On page 105 of his first notebook, he formulated an equation that could be used to solve the infinitely nested radicals problem.
In algebra, nested radicals are radical expressions that have another radical expression nested inside a radical. ...

Using this equation, the answer to the question posed in the Journal was simply 3.^[40] Ramanujan wrote his first formal paper for the Journal on the properties of Bernoulli numbers. One property he discovered was that the denominators (sequence A027642 in OEIS) of the fractions of Bernoulli numbers were always divisible by six. He also devised a method of calculating B_n based on previous Bernoulli numbers. One of these methods went as follows: In mathematics, the Bernoulli numbers are a sequence of rational numbers with deep connections in number theory. ... The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) is an extensive searchable database of integer sequences, freely available on the Web. ...

It will be observed that if n is even but not equal to zero,
(i) B_n is a fraction and the numerator of in its lowest terms is a prime number,
(ii) the denominator of B_n contains each of the factors 2 and 3 once and only once,
(iii) is an integer and consequently is an odd integer.

In "Some Properties of Bernoulli's Numbers", Ramanujan gave three proofs, two corollaries and three conjectures in his 17–page paper.^[41] Ramanujan's writing initially had many flaws. As Journal editor M. T. Narayana Iyengar noted:

Ramanujan later wrote another paper and also continued to provide problems in the Journal.^[43] In early 1912, he got a temporary job in the Madras Accountant General's office, with a 20 rupee/month salary. He kept the job for only a few weeks.^[44] Towards the end of his job at the Account General's office, he applied for a job under the Chief Account of the Madras Port Trust. In a letter dated "9th February 1912", Ramanujan wrote: The Accountant General or Accountant-General was formerly an officer in the English Court of Chancery who received all moneys lodged in court, deposited them in a bank, and disbursed them. ... is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

Sir,
I understand there is a clerkship vacant in your office, and I beg to apply for the same. I have passed the Matriculation Examination and studied up to the F.A. but was prevented from pursuing my studies further owing to several untoward circumstances. I have, however, been devoting all my time to Mathematics and developing the subject. I can say I am quite confident I can do justice to my work if I am appointed to the post. I therefore beg to request that you will be good enough to confer the appointment on me.^[45]

Attached to his application was a recommendation from E. W. Middlemast, a mathematics professor at the Presidence College who wrote that Ramanujan was "a young man of quite exceptional capacity in Mathematics."^[46] Three weeks after he had applied, on 1 March, Ramanujan learned that he was accepted for a job as a Class III, Grade IV accounting clerk, making thirty rupees per month.^[47] At his office, Ramanujan easily and quickly completed the work he was given, so he spent his spare time doing his mathematical research. Ramanujan's boss, Sir Francis Spring, and S. Narayana Iyer, a colleague who was also treasurer of the Indian Mathematical Society, encouraged Ramanujan in his mathematical pursuits. is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Contacting English mathematicians

Spring, Narayana Iyer, Ramachandra Rao and E. W. Middlemast tried to expose Ramanujan's work to British mathematicians. One mathematician, M. J. M. Hill of University College in London, commented that Ramanujan's papers were riddled with holes.^[48] He said that although Ramanujan had "a taste for mathematics, and some ability," he lacked the educational background and foundation needed so that his work would be accepted by higher-up mathematicians.^[49] Although Hill did not offer to take Ramanujan in as a student, he did give thorough and serious professional advice on his work. With the help of friends, Ramanujan drafted letters to leading mathematicians at Cambridge University.^[50] Affiliations University of London Russell Group LERU EUA ACU Golden Triangle G5 Website http://www. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ...

The first two professors, H. F. Baker and E. W. Hobson, returned Ramanujan's papers without any comments.^[51] On 16 January 1913, Ramanujan wrote to G. H. Hardy, who had the foresight to quickly recognize Ramanujan's mathematical skills. The nine pages of mathematical wonder seemed like it could hardly have come from an unestablished mathematician. Hardy originally viewed Ramanujan's manuscripts as a possible "fraud."^[52] Hardy knew some of Ramanujan's formulas, but others "seemed scarcely possible to believe."^[53] One of the theorems Hardy found hard to believe was found on the bottom of page three: Henry Frederick Baker (July 3, 1866 - March 17, 1956) was a British mathematician, working mainly in algebraic geometry, but also remembered for contributions to partial differential equations (related to what would become known as solitons), and Lie groups. ... Ernest William Hobson (27 October 1856 - 19 April 1933) was an English mathematician, now remembered mostly for his books, some of which broke new ground in their coverage in English of topics from mathematical analysis. ... is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... G. H. Hardy Professor Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS (February 7, 1877 – December 1, 1947) was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. ...

Hardy was also impressed by some of Ramanujan's other work relating to infinite series:

The first result had already been determined by a mathematician named Bauer. The second one was new to Hardy. It was derived from a class of functions called a hypergeometric series which had first been researched by Leonhard Euler and Carl Friedrich Gauss. Compared to Ramanujan's work on integrals, Hardy found these results "much more intriguing."^[54] After he saw Ramanujan's theorems on continued fractions on the last page of the manuscripts, Hardy commented that the "[theorems] defeated me completely; I had never seen anything in the least like them before."^[55] He figured that Ramanujan's theorems "must be true, because, if they were not true, no one would have the imagination to invent them.^[55] Hardy contacted a colleague, J. E. Littlewood, to take a look at the papers. Littlewood was amazed by the mathematical genius of Ramanujan. After discussing the papers with Littlewood, Hardy concluded that the letters were "certainly the most remarkable I have received" and commented that Ramanujan was "a mathematician of the highest quality, a man of altogether exceptional originality and power."^[56] One colleague, E. H. Neville, later commented that "not one [theorem] could have been set in the most advanced mathematical examination in the world."^[57] In mathematics, a hypergeometric series is a power series in which the ratios of successive coefficients k is a rational function of k. ... Leonhard Paul Euler (pronounced Oiler; IPA ) (April 15, 1707 – September 18 [O.S. September 7] 1783) was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist, who spent most of his life in Russia and Germany. ... Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss or Gauß ( ; Latin: ) (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, electrostatics, astronomy, and optics. ... John Edensor Littlewood (June 9, 1885 – September 6, 1977) was a British mathematician. ...

On 8 February 1913, Hardy wrote a letter back to Ramanujan, expressing his interest for his work. Hardy also added that it was "essential that I should see proofs of some of your assertions."^[58] Before his letter arrived in Madras during the third week of February, Hardy contacted the Indian Office to set up plans for Ramanujan's trip to Cambridge. Secretary Arthur Davies of the Advisory Committee for Indian Students met with Ramanujan to discuss the overseas trip.^[59] In accordance with his Brahmin upbringing, Ramanujan refused to leave his country to "go to a foreign land."^[60] Meanwhile, Ramanujan sent a letter packed with theorems to Hardy, writing, "I have found a friend in you who views my labour sympathetically."^[61] is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

To supplement Hardy's endorsement, a former mathematical lecturer at Trinity College in Cambridge, Gilbert Walker, looked at Ramanujan's work and expressed amazement and urged him to spend time at Cambridge.^[62] As a result of Walker's endorsement, B. Hanumantha Rao, a mathematics professor at an engineering college, invited Ramanujan's colleague Narayana Iyer to a meeting of the Board of Studies in Mathematics to discuss "what we can do for S. Ramanujan."^[63] The board met and agreed to grant Ramanujan a research scholarship of 75 rupees per month for the next two years at the University of Madras.^[64] While he was engaged as a research student, Ramanujan continued to submit papers to the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society. In one paper, Ramanujan anticipated the work of a Polish mathematician who had published his work shortly after.^[65] In his quarterly papers, Ramanujan drew up theorems to make definite integrals more easily solvable. Working off Giuliano Frullani's 1821 integral theorem, Ramanujan formulated generalizations that could be made to evaluate formerly unyielding integrals.^[66] Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names King’s Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College(s) Christ Church Master The Lord Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... The University of Madras is one of the three oldest universities in India (along with University of Mumbai and University of Calcutta). ...

Hardy's correspondence with Ramanujan soured after Ramanujan refused to come to England. Hardy enlisted a colleague lecturing in Madras, E. H. Neville, to mentor and bring Ramanujan to England.^[67] Neville asked Ramanujan why he was not coming to Cambridge. Ramanujan apparently had now accepted the proposal, as Neville put it, "Ramanujan needed no converting and that his parents' opposition had been withdrawn."^[57] Apparently, Ramanujan's friends convinced his mother to accept the journey to Cambridge. Ramanujan was personally convinced by a vivid dream his mother had, in which the family goddess Namagiri commanded her "to stand no longer between her son and the fullfilment of his life's purpose."^[57] It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Vishnu. ...

Life in England

Ramanujan went aboard the S. S. Nevasa on 17 March 1913, and at ten o'clock in the morning, the ship departed from Madras.^[68] He arrived in London on April 14, with E. H. Neville waiting for him with a car. Four days later, Neville took him to his house on Chesterton Road in Cambridge. Ramanujan immediately began his work with Littlewood and Hardy. After six weeks, Ramanujan moved out of Neville's house and took up residence on Whewell's Court, just a five minutes walk away from Hardy's room.^[69] Hardy and Ramanujan began to take a look at Ramanujan's work in his notebooks. Hardy had already received 120 theorems from Ramanujan in the first two letters, but there were many more results and theorems to be found in the notebooks. Hardy saw that some were wrong, some were already discovered and the rest were new breakthroughs.^[70] Ramanujan left a deep impression on Hardy and Littlewood. Littlewood commented, "I can believe that he's at least a [Carl Gustav Jacob] Jacobi,"^[71] while Hardy said he "can compare him only with [Leonhard] Euler or Jacobi."^[72] is the 76th day of the year (77th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... April 14 is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 261 days remaining. ... Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (December 10, 1804 - February 18, 1851) was a German mathematician, widely considered to be the most inspiring teacher of his time[1] and one of the greatest mathematicians of all time [2][3]. // He was born of Jewish parentage in Potsdam. ... Leonhard Paul Euler (pronounced Oiler; IPA ) (April 15, 1707 – September 18 [O.S. September 7] 1783) was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist, who spent most of his life in Russia and Germany. ...

Ramanujan spent nearly five years in Cambridge collaborating with Hardy and Littlewood and published a part of his findings there. Hardy and Ramanujan had highly contrasting personalities. Their collaboration was a clash of different cultures, beliefs and working styles. Hardy was an atheist and an apostle of proof and mathematical rigour, whereas, Ramanujan was a deeply religious man and relied very strongly on his intuition. While in England, Hardy tried his best to fill the gaps in Ramanujan's education without interrupting his spell of inspiration.

Ramanujan was awarded a B.A. degree by research (this degree was later renamed PhD) in March 1916 for his work on highly composite numbers which was published as a paper in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society. The paper was over 50 pages with different properties of such numbers proven. Hardy remarked that this was one of the most unusual papers seen in Mathematical Research at that time and that Ramanujan showed extraordinary ingenuity in handling it. On 6 December 1917, he was elected to the London Mathematical Society. He was the second Indian to become a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918 and he became one of the youngest Fellows in the entire history of the Royal Society.^[73] He was elected "for his investigation in Elliptic Functions and the Theory of Numbers." On 13 October 1918, he became the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.^[74] A highly composite number is a positive integer which has more divisors than any positive integer below it. ... The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is the leading mathematical society in England. ... is the 340th day of the year (341st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is the leading mathematical society in England. ... is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...

Illness and return to India

Plagued by health problems all through his life, living in a country far away from home, and obsessively involved with his mathematics, Ramanujan's health worsened in England, perhaps exacerbated by stress, and by the scarcity of vegetarian food during the First World War. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis and a severe vitamin deficiency and was confined to a sanatorium. Ramanujan returned to Kumbakonam, India in 1919 and died soon thereafter at the age of 32. His wife, S. Janaki Ammal, lived in Chennai (formerly Madras) until her death in 1994.^[75] In medical terms, stress is the disruption of homeostasis through physical or psychological stimuli. ... Vegetarian cuisine is cookery of food that meets vegetarian principles. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or Tuberculosis) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ... Retinol (Vitamin A) For the record label, see Vitamin Records A vitamin is an organic compound required in tiny amounts for essential metabolic reactions in a living organism. ...

A 1994 analysis of Ramanujan's medical records and symptoms by Dr. D. A. B. Young concluded that it was much more likely he had hepatic amoebiasis, a parasitic infection of the liver. This is supported by the fact that Ramanujan had spent time in Madras, where the disease was widespread. He had two cases of dysentery before he left India. When not properly treated, dysentery can lie dormant for years and lead to hepatic amoebiasis.^[1] It was a difficult disease to diagnose, but once diagnosed would have been readily curable.^[1] Dysentery (formerly known as flux or the bloody flux) is frequent, small-volume, severe diarrhea that shows blood in the feces along with intestinal cramping and tenesmus (painful straining to pass stool). ...

Personality

Ramanujan has been described as a person with a somewhat shy and quiet disposition, a dignified man with pleasant manners.^[76] He lived a rather spartan life while at Cambridge and frequently cooked vegetables alone in his room.

Spiritual life

Ramanujan's first Indian biographers describe him as rigorously orthodox. Ramanujan credited his acumen to his family goddess, Namagiri, and looked to her for inspiration in his work.^[77] He often said, "An equation for me has no meaning, unless it represents a thought of God."^[78] For the 1934 film, see, see The Goddess (1934 film). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Vishnu. ...

G. H. Hardy cites Ramanujan as remarking that all religions seemed equally true to him. Hardy further argued that Ramanujan's religiousness had been overstated -- in the point of belief, not practice -- by his Indian biographers, and romanticised by Westerners. At the same time, he remarked on Ramanujan's strict observance of vegetarianism.

Mathematical achievements

In mathematics, there is a distinction between having an insight and having a proof. 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. Examples of the most interesting of these formulae include the intriguing infinite series for π, one of which is given below In mathematics, a series is often represented as the sum of a sequence of terms. ... When a circles diameter is 1, its circumference is Ï€. Pi or Ï€ is the ratio of a circles circumference to its diameter in Euclidean geometry, approximately 3. ...

This result is based on the negative fundamental discriminant d = −4×58 with class number h(d) = 2 (note that 5×7×13×58 = 26390) and is related to the fact that, A fundamental discriminant d is an integer which satisfies the following conditions: it is not equal to 1, not divisible by any square of any odd prime, leaves remainder 1 when divided by 4 and leaves either remainder 8 or 12 when divided by 16. ...

Ramanujan's series for π converges extraordinarily rapidly (exponentially) and forms the basis of some of the fastest algorithms currently used to calculate π.

One of his remarkable capabilities was the rapid solution for problems. He was sharing a room with P.C.Mahalanobis who had a problem, "Imagine that you are on a street with houses marked 1 through n. There is a house in between (x) such that the sum of the house numbers to left of it equals the sum of the house numbers to its right. If n is between 50 and 500, what are n and x." This is a bivariate problem with multiple solutions. Ramanujan thought about it and gave the answer with a twist: He gave a continued fraction. The unusual part was that it was the solution to the whole class of problems. Mahalanobis was astounded and asked how he did it. "It is simple. The minute I heard the problem, I knew that the answer was a continued fraction. Which continued fraction, I asked myself. Then the answer came to my mind", Ramanujan replied. P.C. Mahalanobis Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (Bangla: প্রশান্ত চন্দ্র মহলানবিস) (June 29, 1893–June 28, 1972) was an Indian scientist and applied statistician. ... In mathematics, a continued fraction is an expression such as where a0 is some integer and all the other numbers an are positive integers. ...

His intuition also led him to derive some previously unknown identities, such as In mathematics, the term identity has several important uses: An identity is an equality that remains true regardless of the values of any variables that appear within it, to distinguish it from an equality which is true under more particular conditions. ...

for all θ, where Γ(z) is the gamma function. Equating coefficients of θ⁰, θ⁴, and θ⁸ gives some deep identities for the hyperbolic secant. The Gamma function along part of the real axis In mathematics, the Gamma function (represented by the capitalized Greek letter Γ) is an extension of the factorial function to real and complex numbers. ... In mathematics, the hyperbolic functions are analogs of the ordinary trigonometric, or circular, functions. ...

In 1918, G. H. Hardy and Ramanujan studied the partition function P(n) extensively and gave a very accurate non-convergent asymptotic series that permits exact computation of the number of partitions of an integer. Hans Rademacher, in 1937, was able to refine their formula to find an exact convergent series solution to this problem. Ramanujan and Hardy's work in this area gave rise to a powerful new method for finding asymptotic formulae, called the circle method.^[79]

One example of his intuition is his discovery of Mock theta functions, in the last year of his life. This was no surprise to some mathematicians as they remarked, "He has his own creativity and the collaboration with Hardy to back it up. So, his finding these is no surprise to the mathematical community."^{[citation needed]} This has gained some interest recently due to proof of the exact formula for the coefficients of any Mock Theta function.^{[citation needed]} Many mathematicians have cited it as the most significant among his discoveries.^{[citation needed]} A mock theta function is one of certain special functions written down by Srinivasa Ramanujan, in his last letter to G. H. Hardy and in his lost notebook. ...

The Ramanujan conjecture

Main article: Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture

Although there are numerous statements that could bear the name Ramanujan conjecture, there is one statement that was very influential on later work. In particular, the connection of this conjecture with conjectures of A.Weil in algebraic geometry opened up new areas of research. That Ramanujan conjecture is an assertion on the size of the tau function, which has as generating function the discriminant modular form Δ(q), a typical cusp form in the theory of modular forms. It was finally proved in 1973, as a consequence of Pierre Deligne's proof of the Weil conjectures. The reduction step involved is complicated. Deligne won a Fields Medal for his work on Weil conjectures.^[80] In mathematics, the Ramanujan conjecture states that the Fourier coefficients τ(n) of the cusp form Δ(z) of weight 12, defined in modular form theory, satisfy τ(p) ≤ 2p11/2, when p is a prime number. ... In mathematics, the Ramanujan conjecture states that the Fourier coefficients τ(n) of the cusp form Δ(z) of weight 12, defined in modular form theory, satisfy τ(p) ≤ 2p11/2, when p is a prime number. ... In number theory, a cusp form is a particular kind of modular form, distinguished in the case of modular forms for the modular group by the vanishing in the Fourier series expansion of the constant coefficient a0. ... In number theory, a cusp form is a particular kind of modular form, distinguished in the case of modular forms for the modular group by the vanishing in the Fourier series expansion of the constant coefficient a0. ... A modular form is an analytic function on the upper half plane satisfying a certain kind of functional equation and growth condition. ... Pierre Deligne, March 2005 Pierre Deligne (born 3 October 1944) is a Belgian mathematician. ... In mathematics, the Weil conjectures, which had become theorems by 1974, were some highly-influential proposals from the late 1940s by André Weil on the generating functions (known as local zeta-functions) derived from counting the number of points on algebraic varieties over finite fields. ...

Ramanujan's notebooks

While still in India, Ramanujan recorded the bulk of his results in four notebooks of loose leaf paper. These results were mostly written up without any derivations. This is probably the origin of the misperception that Ramanujan was unable to prove his results and simply thought up the final result directly. Mathematician Bruce C. Berndt, in his review of these notebooks and Ramanujan's work, says that Ramanujan most certainly was able to make the proofs of most of his results, but chose not to. Generally used to describe a piece of notebook paper that is not connected to a spiral notebook. ... Bruce Carl Berndt (born March 13, 1939, in St. ...

This style of working may have been for several reasons. Since paper was very expensive, Ramanujan would do most of his work and perhaps his proofs on slate, and then transfer just the results to paper. Using a slate was common for mathematics students in India at the time. He was also quite likely to have been influenced by the style of G. S. Carr's book, which stated results without proofs. Finally, it is possible that Ramanujan considered his workings to be for his personal interest alone; and therefore only recorded the results.^[81] A writing slate is a piece of flat material used as a medium for writing. ...

The first notebook has 351 pages with 16 somewhat organized chapters and some unorganized material. The second notebook has 256 pages in 21 chapters and 100 unorganized pages, with the third notebook containing 33 unorganized pages. The results in his notebooks inspired numerous papers by later mathematicians trying to prove what he had found. Hardy himself created papers exploring material from Ramanujan's work as did G. N. Watson, B. M. Wilson, and Bruce Berndt.^[81] A fourth notebook, the so-called "lost notebook", was rediscovered in 1976 by George Andrews.^[1] (George) Neville Watson (31 January 1886 - 2 February 1965) was an English mathematician, a noted master in the application of complex analysis to the theory of special functions. ... In mathematics, Ramanujans lost notebook is the manuscript in which Ramanujan recorded the discoveries of the last year of his life. ...

Other mathematicians' views of Ramanujan

Ramanujan is generally hailed as an all time great like Euler, Gauss or Jacobi for his natural mathematical genius⁵. G. H. Hardy quotes: "The limitations of his knowledge were as startling as its profundity. Here was a man who could work out modular equations and theorems... to orders unheard of, whose mastery of continued fractions was... beyond that of any mathematician in the world, who had found for himself the functional equation of the zeta function and the dominant terms of many of the most famous problems in the analytic theory of numbers; and yet he had never heard of a doubly-periodic function or of Cauchy's theorem, and had indeed but the vaguest idea of what a function of a complex variable was...".^[82] Hardy went on to claim that his greatest contribution to mathematics came from Ramanujan. G. H. Hardy Professor Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS (February 7, 1877 – December 1, 1947) was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. ... In mathematics, a modular equation is an algebraic equation satisfied by moduli, in the sense of moduli problem. ... In mathematics, a continued fraction is an expression such as where a0 is some integer and all the other numbers an are positive integers. ... There are a number of mathematical functions with the name zeta-function, named after the Greek letter ζ. Of these, the most famous is the: Riemann zeta-function. ... In mathematics, a doubly periodic function is a function f defined at all points z in a plane and having two periods, which are linearly independent vectors u and v such that The doubly periodic function is thus a two-dimensional extension of the simpler singly periodic function, which repeats... In mathematics, the Cauchy integral theorem in complex analysis, named after Augustin Cauchy, is an important statement about path integrals for holomorphic functions in the complex plane. ... Complex analysis is the branch of mathematics investigating holomorphic functions, i. ...

Quoting K. Srinivasa Rao,^[83] "As for his place in the world of Mathematics, we quote Bruce C. Berndt: 'Paul Erdős has passed on to us G. H. Hardy's personal ratings of mathematicians. Suppose that we rate mathematicians on the basis of pure talent on a scale from 0 to 100, Hardy gave himself a score of 25, J.E. Littlewood 30, David Hilbert 80 and Ramanujan 100.'" David Hilbert (January 23, 1862, Königsberg, East Prussia – February 14, 1943, Göttingen, Germany) was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. ...

In his book Scientific Edge, noted physicist Jayant Narlikar stated that "Srinivasa Ramanujan, discovered by the Cambridge mathematician G.H. Hardy, whose great mathematical findings were beginning to be appreciated from 1915 to 1919. His achievements were to be fully understood much later, well after his untimely death in 1920. For example, his work on the highly composite numbers (numbers with a large number of factors) started a whole new line of investigations in the theory of such numbers." Narlikar also goes on to say that his work was one of the top ten achievements of 20^th century Indian science and "could be considered in the Nobel Prize class."^[84] The work of other 20^th century Indian scientists which Narlikar considered to be of Nobel Prize class were those of Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Megh Nad Saha and Satyendra Nath Bose. Professor Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (born July 19,1938) (Marathi: प्रा. जयंत विष्णू नारळीकर) is an eminent Indian astrophysicist. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ), as designated in Alfred Nobels will in 1895, are awarded for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. ... Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, CBE (Tamil: சந்திரசேகர வெங்கடராமன்) (November 7, 1888 – November 21, 1970) was an Indian physicist, who was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the Raman effect, which is named after him. ... Megh Nad Saha (Bangla:মেঘনাদ সাহা) (Devanagari: मेघनाद साहा) (October 6, 1893 – February 16, 1956) was a Bengali Indian astrophysicist. ... Satyendra Nath Bose Bengali: ) (January 1, 1894 – February 4, 1974) was an Indian physicist, specializing in mathematical physics. ...

Recognition

Ramanujan's home state of Tamil Nadu celebrates December 22 (Ramanujan's birthday) as 'State IT Day', memorializing both the man and his achievements, as a native of Tamil Nadu. A stamp picturing Ramanujan was released by the Government of India in 1962 — the 75^th anniversary of Ramanujan's birth — commemorating his achievements in the field of number theory. Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ... is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Government of India (Hindi: भारत सरकार [1]Bhārat Sarkār), officially referred to as the Union Government, and commonly as Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of a federal union of 28 states and 7 union territories, collectively called the Republic of...

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. During the year 1987 (Ramanujan's centennial), the printed form of Ramanujan's Lost Notebook by the Narosa publishing house of Springer-Verlag was released by the late Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, who presented the first copy to S. Janaki Ammal Ramanujan (Ramanujan's late widow) and the second copy to George Andrews in recognition of his contributions in the field of number theory. ICTP Main building The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics operates under a tripartite agreement among the Italian Government, UNESCO, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (both agencies of the United Nations) to foster advanced studies and research, especially in developing countries. ... The International Mathematical Union is an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... A centennial is a 100-year anniversary of an event, or the celebrations pertaining thereto. ... Springer Science+Business Media or Springer (IPA: ) is a worldwide publishing company based in Germany which focuses on academic journals and books in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. ... Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (IPA: ) (August 20, 1944 – May 21, 1991), the eldest son of Indira. ... George E. Andrews is a Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. ...

Projected films

• An international feature film on Ramanujan's life will begin shooting in 2007 in Tamil Nadu state and Cambridge. It is being produced by an Indo-British collaboration; it will be co-directed by Stephen Fry and Dev Benegal.^[85] A play First Class Man by Alter Ego Productions ^[86] was based on David Freeman's "First Class Man". The play is centered around Ramanujan and his complex and dysfunctional relationship with G. H. Hardy.
• Another film based on the book The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel is being made by Edward Pressman and Matthew Brown.^[87]

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Cultural references

• He is the subject of David Leavitt's new novel "The Indian Clerk," released September 2007. The novel is set during Ramanujan's sojourn in England, where he went at the invitation of Cambridge mathematican G.H. Hardy and his colleague J.E. Littlewood.
• He was referred to in the film Good Will Hunting as an example of mathematical genius.
• His biography was highlighted in the Vernor Vinge book The Peace War as well as Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach.
• The character "Amita Ramanujan" in the CBS TV series Numb3rs (2005-) was named after him (source: IMDB's trivia for 'Numb3rs').
• The short story "Gomez", by Cyril Kornbluth, mentions Ramanujan by name as a comparison to its title character, another self-taught mathematical genius.
• In the novel Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis, Ramanujan is one of the characters.
• In the novel Earth by David Brin, the character Jen Wolling uses a representation of Sri Ramanujan as her computer interface.
• In the novel The Peace War by Vernor Vinge, a young mathematical genius is referred to as "my little Ramanujan" accidentally. Then it is hoped the young man doesn't get the connection because, like Ramanujan, the boy is doomed to die prematurely.
• The character "Yugo Amaryl" in Isaac Asimov's Prelude to Foundation is based on Ramanujan.^{[citation needed]}
• The theatre company Complicite has created a production based around the life of Ramanjuan called A Disappearing Number - conceived and directed by Simon McBurney
• The PBS television show Nova episode "The Man Who Loved Numbers", about Ramanujan, was first broadcast on March 22, 1988.

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See also

Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 - 1920) is the eponym of all of the topics listed below. ... In mathematics, the Ramanujan conjecture states that the Fourier coefficients τ(n) of the cusp form Δ(z) of weight 12, defined in modular form theory, satisfy τ(p) ≤ 2p11/2, when p is a prime number. ... 1729 Cardinal One thousand seven hundred [and] twenty-nine Ordinal 1729th Factorization Divisors 7, 13, 19, 91, 133, 247 Roman numeral MDCCXXIX Binary 11011000001 Octal 3301 Duodecimal 1001 Hexadecimal 6C1 1729 is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number, after a famous anecdote of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy regarding... In mathematics, the Landau-Ramanujan constant occurs in a number theory result that the proportion of positive integers less than x which are the sum of two square numbers is, for large x, roughly proportional to The constant of proportionality is the Landau-Ramanujan constant. ... The Ramanujan-Soldner constant is a mathematical constant defined as the unique positive zero of the logarithmic integral function. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... In mathematics, the Ramanujan theta function generalizes the form of the Jacobi theta functions, while capturing their general properties. ... In combinatorics, an expander graph is in rough terms a sparse graph with high vertex or edge expansion, or in other words highly connected. ... In number theory, a cusp form is a particular kind of modular form, distinguished in the case of modular forms for the modular group by the vanishing in the Fourier series expansion of the constant coefficient a0. ... In mathematics, the Rogers-Ramanujan identities are a set of identities related to basic hypergeometric series. ... In mathematics, a Ramanujan prime is a prime number that satisfies a result proven by Srinivasa Ramanujan relating to the prime counting function. ... Ramanujans constant is a name given to the number: . Its value is extraordinarly close to an integer: It was discovered in 1859 by the mathematician Charles Hermite. ... In mathematics, Ramanujans sum, named for Srinivasa Ramanujan and usually denoted cq(n), is defined to be where n and q are positive integers, (a,q) denotes the greatest common divisor of a and q, and e(x) is the exponential function exp(2Ï€ix). ... Although the human mind comprehends the universe with three spatial dimensions, some theories in physics, including string theory, include the idea that there are additional spatial dimensions. ...

Selected publications by Ramanujan

• Collected Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan, by Srinivasa Ramanujan, G. H. Hardy, P. V. Seshu Aiyar, B. M. Wilson, Bruce C. Berndt (AMS, 2000, ISBN 0-8218-2076-1)

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. G. H. Hardy Professor Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS (February 7, 1877 – December 1, 1947) was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. ... Bruce Carl Berndt (born March 13, 1939, in St. ...

• Notebooks (2 Volumes), S. Ramanujan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, 1957.

These books contain photo copies of the original notebooks as written by Ramanujan.

• The Lost Notebook and Other Unpublished Papers, by S. Ramanujan, Narosa, New Delhi, 1988.

This book contains photo copies of the pages in the "Lost Notebook".

Selected publications about Ramanujan and his work

• Berndt, Bruce C. "An Overview of Ramanujan's Notebooks." Charlemagne and His Heritage: 1200 Years of Civilization and Science in Europe. Ed. P. L. Butzer, W. Oberschelp, and H. Th. Jongen. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1998. 119-146. Text
• Berndt, Bruce C., and George E. Andrews. Ramanujan's Lost Notebook, Part I. New York: Springer, 2005. ISBN 0-387-25529-X.
• Berndt, Bruce C., and Robert A. Rankin. Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary. Vol. 9. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 1995. ISBN 0-8218-0287-9.
• Berndt, Bruce C., and Robert A. Rankin. Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary. Vol. 22. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 2001. ISBN 0-8218-2624-7.
• Berndt, Bruce C. Number Theory in the Spirit of Ramanujan. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 2006. ISBN 0-8218-4178-5.
• Berndt, Bruce C. Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part I. New York: Springer, 1985. ISBN 0-387-96110-0.
• Berndt, Bruce C. Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part II. New York: Springer, 1999. ISBN 0-387-96794-X.
• Berndt, Bruce C. Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part III. New York: Springer, 2004. ISBN 0-387-97503-9.
• Berndt, Bruce C. Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part IV. New York: Springer, 1993. ISBN 0-387-94109-6.
• Berndt, Bruce C. Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part V. New York: Springer, 2005. ISBN 0-387-94941-0.
• Hardy, G. H. Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 1999. ISBN 0-8218-2023-0.
• Henderson, Harry. Modern Mathematicians. New York: Facts on File Inc., 1995. ISBN 0-8160-3235-1.
• Kanigel, Robert. The Man Who Knew Infinity: a Life of the Genius Ramanujan. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. ISBN 0-684-19259-4.
• Narlikar, Jayant V. Scientific Edge: the Indian Scientist From Vedic to Modern Times. New Delhi, India: Penguin Books, 2003. ISBN 0143030280.

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Media links

• Film to celebrate mathematics genius. BBC. Retrieved on August 24, 2006.
• Feature Film on Mathematics Genius Ramanujan by Dev Benegal and Stephen Fry
• BBC radio programme about Ramanujan - episode 5
• A biographical song about Ramanujan's life

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Biographical links

• O'Connor, John J; Edmund F. Robertson "Srinivasa Ramanujan". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.  
• Eric W. Weisstein, Ramanujan, Srinivasa (1887-1920) at ScienceWorld.
• Biographical essay on Ramanujan
• Biography of this mathematical genius at World of Biography
• Srinivasan Ramanujan in One Hundred Tamils of 20th Century
• Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan
• A short biography of Ramanujan
• A magical genius
• "A passion for numbers"

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Other links

• A Study Group For Mathematics: Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar
• The Ramanujan Journal - An international journal devoted to Ramanujan
• International Math Union Prizes, including a Ramanujan Prize.
• Complicite Production of "A Disappearing Number" - a play about Ramanujan's work
• Hindu.com: Norwegian and Indian mathematical geniuses, RAMANUJAN — Essays and Surveys, Ramanujan's growing influence, Ramanujan's mentor
• Bruce C. Berndt; Robert A. Rankin (2000). "The Books Studied by Ramanujan in India". American Mathematical Monthly 107 (7): 595-601. doi:10.2307/2589114. MR1786233. 
• "Ramanujan's mock theta function puzzle solved"
• Ramanujan's papers and notebooks
• Sample page from the second notebook

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