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Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan
FRS
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Born (1887-12-22)22 December 1887
Erode, Madras Presidency, British Raj (now Tamil Nadu, India)
Died 26 April 1920(1920-04-26) (aged 32)
Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency, British Raj (now Tamil Nadu, India)
Residence Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency
Madras, Madras Presidency
London, United Kingdom
Nationality Indian
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Trinity College, Cambridge
Alma mater Government Arts College (no degree)
Pachaiyappa's College (no degree)
Trinity College, Cambridge (BSc, 1916)
Thesis Highly Composite Numbers (1916)
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. S. Carr
Influenced G. H. Hardy
Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society
Signature
Srinivasa Ramanujan signature

Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan FRS (pronunciation: Listeni/ˈʃrniˌvɑːsə ˈrɑːmɑːˌnʊən/; 22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician and autodidact who lived during the British Raj. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation; it was quickly recognized by Indian mathematicians. When his skills became obvious and known to the wider mathematical community, centred in Europe at the time, he began a partnership with the English mathematician G. H. Hardy. The Cambridge professor realized that Srinivasa Ramanujan had produced new theorems in addition to rediscovering previously known ones.


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