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Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician from Tamil Nadu who made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions despite having little formal training. Some of his key achievements include formulating the Ramanujan prime and the Ramanujan theta function. He attracted the attention of the English mathematician G.H. Hardy through letters detailing his original research. Ramanujan went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, becoming the first Indian elected to the Royal Society. He died young at the age of 32 while still making important contributions to mathematics.

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Maths Project On Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician from Tamil Nadu who made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions despite having little formal training. Some of his key achievements include formulating the Ramanujan prime and the Ramanujan theta function. He attracted the attention of the English mathematician G.H. Hardy through letters detailing his original research. Ramanujan went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, becoming the first Indian elected to the Royal Society. He died young at the age of 32 while still making important contributions to mathematics.

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Srinivasa
Ramanujan
The Great Indian Mathematician

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styleof Ramanujan

• Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician who lived during the British


Rule in India.
• He was born on 22nd December 1887 in a village name Erode in
Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu)
• His father, Kuppuswamy Srinivasa Iyengar, originally from Thanjavur
district, worked as a clerk in a sari shop and his mother,
Komalatammal, was a housewife and sang at a local temple.
• He went to school for the first time in 1st October 1892, but had to
switch school 3 times due to circumstances
• He didn’t receive any formal training in the field of mathematics.
• When he graduated from Town Higher Secondary School in 1904, Srinivasa Ramanujan
Ramanujan was awarded the K. Ranganatha Rao prize for
mathematics by the school's headmaster, Krishnaswami Iyer.
• He received a scholarship to study at Government Arts College,
Kumbakonam.
• He later enrolled at Pachaiyappa's College in Madras. 2 2
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of Career

• In 1910, Ramanujan met deputy collector V. Ramaswamy Aiyer, who founded the Indian
Mathematical Society. Ramanujan showed him his mathematics notebooks.
• Aiyer sent Ramanujan, with letters of introduction, to R. Ramachandra Rao, the district collector
for Nellore and the secretary of the Indian Mathematical Society.
• Rao was impressed by Ramanujan's research and was convinced by his intelligence. He
promised him to help him in every way he can.
• He continued his research with Rao's financial aid. With Aiyer's help, Ramanujan had his work
published in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society.
• Mr. Ramanujan's methods were so terse and novel and his presentation so lacking in clearness
and precision, that the ordinary [mathematical reader], unaccustomed to such intellectual
gymnastics, could hardly follow him.
• Ramanujan later wrote another paper and also continued to provide problems in the Journal.

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Contacting style Mathematicians

• M. J. M. Hill of University College London commented that Ramanujan had "a taste for
mathematics, and some ability", he lacked the necessary educational background and
foundation to be accepted by mathematicians.
• On 16th January 1913, Ramanujan wrote to G. H. Hardy.[45] Coming from an unknown
mathematician, the nine pages of mathematics made Hardy initially view Ramanujan's
manuscripts as a possible fraud.
• The first result had already been determined by G. Bauer in 1859. The second was new to
Hardy, and was derived from a class of functions called hypergeometric series, which had first
been researched by Euler and Gauss
• After seeing Ramanujan's theorems on continued fractions on the last page of the manuscripts,
Hardy said the theorems "defeated me completely; I had never seen anything in the least like
them before"

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Mathematical

The Ramanujan conjecture


• The Ramanujan conjecture is an assertion on the size of the tau-function, which has as
generating function the discriminant modular form Δ(q), a typical cusp form in the theory of
modular forms. He gave this conjecture in 1916
Landau–Ramanujan constant
• In mathematics and the field of number theory, the Landau–Ramanujan constant is the positive
real number b that occurs in a theorem proved by Edmund Landau in 1908, stating that for large
x, the number of positive integers below x that are the sum of two square numbers behaves
asymptotically. This constant b was rediscovered in 1913 by Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Mock Theta function
• A mock theta function is essentially a mock modular form of weight 1/2. The first examples of
mock theta functions were described by Srinivasa Ramanujan
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Mathematical

Ramanujan’s Sum
• Srinivasa Ramanujan mentioned the sums in a 1918 paper. In addition to the expansions
discussed in this article, Ramanujan's sums are used in the proof of Vinogradov's theorem that
every sufficiently-large odd number is the sum of three primes.
Ramanujan's master theorem
• In mathematics, Ramanujan's master theorem (named after Srinivasa Ramanujan) is a
technique that provides an analytic expression for the Mellin transform of an analytic function.
Rogers–Ramanujan identities
• In mathematics, the Rogers–Ramanujan identities are two identities related to basic
hypergeometric series and integer partitions. The identities were first discovered and proved by
Leonard James Rogers (1894), and were subsequently rediscovered (without a proof) by
Srinivasa Ramanujan some time before 1913.
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Later styleof Ramanujan

• In 1918, He was elected to London Mathematical Society and became a Fellow of Royal
Society
• He was the first Indian to become a student of Trinity College of Cambridge.
• Due to his deteriorating heath conditions in England, he had to return to India where he died in
1932 at the age of 32.
Our Inspiration from Ramanujan’s Life
• Ramanujan was a great mathematician who was born in the dark time of British empowerment
in India but still due to his will power and his talent, he achieved great heights of success. From
his life, we learn that when true talent comes with the combination of great will power, nothing
on the earth can stop it’s achievings.

Submitted by- Suyash Mishra Roll No. 35 Class- X-A


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