History of ramanujan

 

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 SRINIVASA  RAMANUJAN

 

 

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· What is the history of Ramanujan?

 

At age 15 SrinivasaRamanujan obtained a mathematics book containing thousands of theorems, which he verified and from which he developed his own ideas. In 1903 he briefly attended the University of Madras. In 1914 he went to England to study at Trinity College, Cambridge, with British mathematician G.H. Hardy.

 

· What is Ramanujan theory?

For those of you who are unfamiliar with this series, which has come to be known as the RamanujanSummation after a famous Indian mathematician named SrinivasaRamanujan, it states that if you add all the natural numbers, that is 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on, all the way to infinity, you will find that it is equal to -1/12.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SrinivasaAiyangarRamanujan

 

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Born

22 December 1887
Erode, Tamil Nadu state, India

Died

26 April 1920
Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu state, India

 

Summary

Ramanujan made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.

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Biography

SrinivasaRamanujan 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). When Ramanujan was a year old his mother took him to the town of Kumbakonam, about 160 km nearer Madras. His father worked in Kumbakonam as a clerk in a cloth merchant's shop. In December 1889 he contracted smallpox.

When he was nearly five years old, Ramanujan entered the primary school in Kumbakonam although he would attend several different primary schools before entering the Town High School in Kumbakonam in January 1898. At the Town High School, Ramanujan was to do well in all his school subjects and showed himself an able all round scholar. In 1900 he began to work on his own on mathematics summing geometric and arithmetic series.

Ramanujan was shown how to solve cubic equations in 1902 and he went on to find his own method to solve the quartic. The following year, not knowing that the quintic could not be solved by radicals, he tried (and of course failed) to solve the quintic.