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Andrews evan pugh professor of mathematics, the pennsylvania state university george andrews will describe the brief life of srinivasa ramanujan, the selftaught indian mathematical. Life and work of the mathemagician srinivasa ramanujan k. Hardy is the british mathematician who first appreciated the full extent of ramanujan s talent, knew him well personally, and had a fruitful mathematical collaboration with him. Srinivasa ramanujan was a great indian mathematician. What are the mathematical contributions of ramanujan. Mathematical story of srinivasa ramanujan the hindu portal. R a rankin, srinivasa ramanujan 1887 1920, international journal of mathematical education in science and technology 18 1987, 861. Ramanujan eventually came to england and studied with hardy, who graciously observed that while ramanujan was unschooled in many things every modern mathematics student in the west would know, e. Town high school of kumbakonam got a copy of george schoobridge carrs \a synopsis of pure and applied mathematics 1904. In his book scientific edge, the physicist jayant narlikar spoke of srinivasa ramanujan, discovered by the cambridge mathematician hardy, whose great mathematical findings were beginning to be appreciated from 1915 to 1919. Born in south india, ramanujan was a promising student, winning academic prizes in high school. The collaboration that took place in the years 19141919 between the indian mathematician srinivasa ramanujan and the english mathematician g. Here, his 37 published papers, most of his first two and last letters to hardy, the famous 58 problems submitted to the journal of the indian mathematical society, and the.
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