Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar an Indian Mathematician, philosophical thinker.

One of the world’s greatest mathematicians.

First Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Second Indian and one of the youngest individuals in the history of the Royal Society to be elected as a Fellow (FRS).

Member of the London Mathematical Society.

University of Madras granted him its first-ever research scholarship.

Wrote 3 books with 3900 mathematical theorems.

His birthday is celebrated as National Mathematics Day.

Ramanujan prime number is named after him.

A biographical movie ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ was made in honor of Srinivasa Ramanujan, depicting his life and mathematical journey.

He made important contributions to mathematics, including Ramanujan congruences, the Ramanujan conjecture (later proved by Pierre Deligne), Ramanujan primes, the Ramanujan theta function, Ramanujan’s master theorem, the Rogers–Ramanujan identities, the Hardy–Ramanujan asymptotic formula (with G. H. Hardy), the Ramanujan–Sato series for π, and the Ramanujan–Soldner constant.
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