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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 Ramanujan had produced new theorems in addition to
rediscovering previously known ones.During his SHORT life, Ramanujan
independently compiled nearly 3,900 results (mostly identities and equations).[1]
Nearly all his claims have now been proven correct.[2] His original and highly
unconventional results, such as the Ramanujan prime and the Ramanujan theta
function, have inspired a vast amount of further researchThe Ramanujan Journal, a
peer-reviewed scientific journal, was established to publish work in all areas of
mathematics influenced by Ramanujan.Deeply religious,Ramanujan credited his
substantial mathematical capacities to divinity: '"An equation for me has no
meaning," he once said, "unless it expresses a thought of God
Died 1920 AD
Residence Erode , Kumbakonam
Nationality Indian
Fields Mathematics, Astronomy
Institutions Cambridge university, madras university
Friend Hardy
Contributions
Ramanujam made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of
numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions and
infinite 1900 he began to work on his own on mathematics summing
geometric and arithmetic series.
He worked on divergent series. He sent 120 theorems on imply
divisibility properties of the partition function.
He gave a meaning to eulerian second integral for all values of n
(negative, positive and fractional). He proved that the integral of x n-1 e-
7
= (gamma) is true for all values of gamma.
Goldbachs conjecture: Goldbachs conjecture is one of the
important illustrations of ramanujan contribution towards the proof of the
conjecture. The statement is every even integer greater that two is the
sum of two primes, that is, 6=3+3 : Ramanujan and his associates had
shown that every large integer could be written as the sum of at most
four (Example: 43=2+5+17+19).
Partition of whole numbers: Partition of whole numbers is another
similar problem that captured ramanujan attention. Subsequently
ramanujan developed a formula for the partition of any number, which
can be made to yield the required result by a series of successive
approximation. Example 3=3+0=1+2=1+1+1;
Numbers: Ramanujan studied the highly composite numbers also
which are recognized as the opposite of prime numbers. He studies their
structure, distribution and special forms.
Fermat Theorem: He also did considerable work on the unresolved
Fermat theorem, which states that a prime number of the form 4m+1 is
the sum of two squares.
Ramanujan number: 1729 is a famous ramanujan number. It is the
smaller number which can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two
different ways- 1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103
Cubic Equations and Quadratic Equation: Ramanujam was shown
how to solve cubic equations in 1902 and he went on to find his own
method to solve the quadratic. The following year, not knowing that the
quintic could not be solved by radicals, he tried (and of course failed) to
solve the quintic.
Eulers constant : By 1904 Ramanujam had began to undertake
deep research. He investigated the series (1/n) and calculated Eulers
constant to 15 decimal places.
Hypo geometric series: He worked hypo geometric series, and
investigated relations between integrals and series. He was to discover
later that he had been studying elliptic functions. Ramanujans own works
on partial sums and products of hyper-geometric series have led to major
development in the topic.
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