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(indian mathematician)
(1887 – 1920)
(“fellow of the royal society”)
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FRS (Tamil: ஸ்ரீநிவாச இராமானுஜன்; /ˈʃriːniˌvɑːsə ˈrɑːmɑːˌnʊdʒən/ ( listen), /-rɑːˈmɑːnʊdʒən/;
’22 december 1887′ – ’26 april 1920′
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(“srinivasa ramanujan” was an indian mathematician who lived during the ‘british rule’ in india)
(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 considered to be ‘unsolvable’)
(‘ramanujan’ initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation; it was quickly recognized by indian mathematicians)
(seeking mathematicians who could better understand his work, in 1913 he began a postal partnership with the english mathematician ‘G. H. Hardy’ at the ‘university of cambridge’ / ‘england’)
(recognizing the extraordinary work sent to him as samples, ‘hardy’ arranged travel for ‘ramanujan’ to ‘cambridge’)
(much like ‘wittgenstein’ and ‘russell’ in philosophy during this time)
(‘indian’ replacing ‘jew’ as the ‘other’ in comparison to ‘the british’)
(in his notes, ‘ramanujan’ had produced groundbreaking new theorems, including some that ‘hardy’ stated had ‘defeated [him and his colleagues] completely’, in addition to rediscovering recently proven but highly advanced results)
(during his short life, ‘mamanujan’ independently compiled nearly 3,900 results (mostly identities and equations))
(many were completely novel; his original and highly unconventional results, such as the “ramanujan prime”, the “ramanujan theta function”, “partition formulae”, and “mock theta functions”, have opened entire new areas of work and inspired a vast amount of further research)
(nearly all his claims have now been proven ‘correct’)
(much like ‘einstein’ in physics)
(‘the ramanujan ‘journal’, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, was established to publish work in all areas of mathematics influenced by ‘ramanujan’, and his notebooks – containing summaries of his published and unpublished results – have been analyzed and studied for decades since his death as a source of new mathematical ideas)
(as late as 2011 and again in 2012, researchers continued to discover that mere comments in his writings about “simple properties” and “similar outputs” for certain findings were themselves profound and subtle number theory results that remained unsuspected until nearly a century after his death and which relied on work published in 2006)
(he became one of the youngest “Fellows of the Royal Society” and only the second indian member, and the first indian to be elected a “Fellow of Trinity College”, “Cambridge”)
(of his original letters, ‘hardy’ stated that a ‘single look’ was enough to show they could only have been written by a mathematician of the highest calibre, comparing ‘Ramanujan’ to other ‘mathematical geniuses’ such as ‘euler’ and ‘jacobi’)
(in 1919, ill health – now believed to have been ‘hepatic amoebiasis’ (a complication from episodes of ‘dysentery’ many years previously) – compelled Ramanujan’s return to ‘india’, where he died in 1920 at the age of 32)
(his last letters to ‘hardy’, written ‘January 1920’, show that he was still continuing to produce new mathematical ideas and theorems)
(his “lost notebook”, containing discoveries from the last year of his life, caused great excitement among mathematicians when it was rediscovered in 1976)
(a deeply religious ‘hindu’, ‘‘ramanujan’ credited his substantial mathematical capacities to ‘divinity’, and stated that the mathematical knowledge he displayed was revealed to him by his ‘family goddess’)
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(“an equation for me has no meaning,” he once said, “unless it expresses a thought of god”)
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