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  2. Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar[ a ] (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable.

  3. Biography. 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. Ramanujan was born in his grandmother's house in Erode, a small village about 400 km southwest of Madras (now Chennai).

  4. Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920), the man who reshaped twentieth-century mathematics with his various contributions in several mathematical domains, including mathematical analysis, infinite series, continued fractions, number theory, and game theory is recognized as one of history's greatest mathematicians.

    • Beginnings
    • The Discovery of Ramanujan as A Mathematician of Genius
    • Ramanujan at Cambridge
    • Explaining Ramanujan’S Extraordinary Mathematical Output
    • Some Personal Details and The End

    Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on December 22, 1887 in the town of Erode, in Tamil Nadu, in the south east of India. His father was K. Srinivasa Iyengar, an accounting clerk for a clothing merchant. His mother was Komalatammal, who earned a small amount of money each month as a singer at the local temple. His family were Brahmins, the Hindu caste of ...

    The Hungry Years At the beginning of 1907, at age 19, with minimal funds and a stomach all too often groaning with hunger, Ramanujan continued on the path he had chosen: total devotion to mathematics. The mathematics he was doing was highly original and very advanced. Even though (or some might say because) he had very little formal mathematical ed...

    Ramanujan arrived in Cambridge in April 1914, three months before the outbreak of World War 1. Within days he had begun work with Hardy and Littlewood. Two years later, he was awarded the equivalent of a Ph.D. for his work – a mere formality. Ramanujan’s prodigious mathematical output amazed Hardy and Littlewood. The notebooks he brought from India...

    Ramanujan had very little formal training in mathematics, and indeed large areas of mathematics were unknown to him. Yet in the areas familiar to him and in which he enjoyed working, his output of new results was phenomenal. Ramanujan said the Hindu goddess Namagiri – who had appeared in his mother’s dream telling her to allow him to go to Cambridg...

    In July 1909, Ramanujan married S. Janaki Ammal, who was then just 10 years old. The marriage had been arranged by Ramanujan’s mother. The couple began sharing a home in 1912. When Ramanujan left to study at the University of Cambridge, his wife moved in with Ramanujan’s parents. Ramanujan’s scholarship was sufficient for his needs in Cambridge and...

  5. UPSC Preparation Strategy. Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) One of the greatest mathematicians of all time, Srinivasa Ramanujan was born in 1887 in the Southern part of India. He is still remembered for his contributions to the field of mathematics.

  6. Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) was an Indian mathematician who made great and original contributions to many mathematical fields, including complex analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions.