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Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS ( pronunciation (helpinfo)) (22 December 1887 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician andautodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis,number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. Living in India with no access to the larger mathematical community, which was centred in Europe at the time, Ramanujan developed his own mathematical research in isolation. As a result, he rediscovered known theorems in addition to producing new work. Ramanujan was said to be a natural genius by the English mathematician G. H. Hardy, in the same league as mathematicians such as Euler and Gauss. He died at the age of 32. Ramanujan was born at Erode, Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu) in a Tamil Brahmin family of Thenkalai Iyengar sect.[2][3][4] His introduction to formal mathematics began at age 10. He demonstrated a natural ability, and was given books on advanced
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Srinivasa Ramanujan 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 by about 400 km sou
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Srinivasa Ramanujan Malik Blackman Ramanujan’s life Untrained; self-taught; genius- these are some of the adjectives that were used to describe Ramanujan’s brief, but incredible life. Srinivasa Ramanujan was born månad 22, 1887 in the city of Erode, in his grandmother’s house. Outside of his life in mathematics, Ramanujan was a very religious person. He was a Hindu, and especially worshipped the Hindu god Narashima. Narashima is the fourth reincarnation of Lord Vishnu, the main god of the Hindu religion. Ramanujan’s father was a textile clerk and his mother was a singer. His mother had two other children, however they died during industry. Just like his other two siblings, Srinivasa also almost lost his life at an early age. At the age of five, Ramanujan contracted smallpox. However, he was able to recover from the disease, considering his family had no money to spend on medical expenses. Th