Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (Tamil: ஸ்ரீனிவாஸ ஐயங்கார் ராமானுஜன்) (December 22, 1887 – April 26, 1920) was a groundbreaking Indian mathematician. A child prodigy, he was largely self-taught in mathematics. Ramanujan is considered one of the world's greatest-ever mathematicians, proving over 3,000 theorems. Ramanujan mainly worked in analytical number theory and is famous for many summation formulas involving constants such as π, prime numbers and the partition function. Often, his formulae were stated without proof and were only later proven to be true. His results inspired a large amount of later research and mathematical papers. In 1997 the Ramanujan Journal was launched to publish work "in areas of mathematics influenced by Ramanujan".

External links

• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive on Ramanujan
• Another Biography
• Srinivasan Ramanujan in One Hundred Tamils of 20th Century
• The Ramanujan Journal - An international journal devoted to Ramanujan
• Jai Maharaj, Computing the Mathematical Face of God: S. Ramanujan
• Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan
• A short biography of Ramanujan
• Posted by: Krishna Kanth, India Classic maths puzzle cracked at last