Srinivasa Ramanujan

श्रीनिवास रामानुजन

Mathematics Tamil Nadu Great mind of history

Largely self-taught mathematician whose work on number theory, infinite series and continued fractions still drives research. His birthday is National Mathematics Day.

BORN

22 December 1887

DIED

26 April 1920

HONOUR

Fellow of the Royal Society, 1918

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Key facts

Born: 22 December 1887, Erode
Died: 26 April 1920, Kumbakonam
State of birth: Erode, Tamil Nadu
Sector: Mathematics
Profession: Mathematician · Fellow of the Royal Society
Gender: Male

In their words

Sourced “मेरे लिए किसी समीकरण का तब तक कोई अर्थ नहीं, जब तक वह ईश्वर के किसी विचार को व्यक्त न करे।” An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God. — Attributed in biographies of Ramanujan

Biography

Ramanujan worked with G. H. Hardy at Cambridge from 1914 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918. The number 1729 is known as the Hardy–Ramanujan number.

Summary based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), reviewed by the RochakDuniya editorial team.

Timeline

1887Born in Erode
1914Joins Hardy at Cambridge
1918Elected FRS
1920Dies in Kumbakonam

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