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Srinivasa Ramanujan
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"Ramanujan" redirects here. For other uses, see Ramanujan (disambiguation). Srinivasa Ramanujan | | Born | 22 December 1887
Erode, Madras Presidency (nowTamil Nadu) | Died | 26 April 1920 (aged 32)
Chetput, Madras, Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu) | Residence | Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu | Nationality | Indian | Fields | Mathematics | Alma mater | Government Arts College
Pachaiyappa's College | Academic advisors | G. H. Hardy
J. E. Littlewood | Known for | Landau–Ramanujan constant
Mock theta functions
Ramanujan conjecture
Ramanujan prime
Ramanujan–Soldner constant
Ramanujan theta function
Ramanujan's sum
Rogers–Ramanujan identities
Ramanujan's master theorem | Influences | G. H. Hardy | Signature |
Srinivasa Ramanujan Tamil: ஸ்ரீனிவாஸ ராமானுஜன் (ஐயங்கார்) FRS ( pronunciation (help·info)) (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. Living in India with no access to the larger mathematical community, which was centered in Europe at the time, Ramanujan developed his own mathematical research in isolation. As a result, he sometimes rediscovered known theorems in addition to producing new work. Ramanujan was said to be a natural genius by the English mathematician G.H. Hardy, in the same league as mathematicians such as Euler and Gauss.[1]
Born at Erode, Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu) in a poor Hindu Brahmin family, Ramanujan's introduction to formal mathematics began at age 10. He demonstrated a natural ability, and was given books on advanced trigonometry written by S. L. Loney that he mastered by the age of 12; he even discovered theorems of his own, and re-discovered Euler's identity independently.[2] He

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