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    Srinivasa Ramanujan was a renowned Indian mathematician who made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions despite having almost no formal training. Some of his most notable works included finding infinite series for pi and formulas for the partition of numbers. He had an uncanny ability to rapidly solve complex mathematical problems and discover new theorems and identities often with more insight within them than initially met the eye. His collaboration with mathematician G.H. Hardy resulted in breakthroughs such as a formula for the partition function p(n), which calculates the number of ways a positive integer can be expressed as a sum of positive integers.

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    Srinivasa Ramanujan was a renowned Indian mathematician who made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions despite having almost no formal training. Some of his most notable works included finding infinite series for pi and formulas for the partition of numbers. He had an uncanny ability to rapidly solve complex mathematical problems and discover new theorems and identities often with more insight within them than initially met the eye. His collaboration with mathematician G.H. Hardy resulted in breakthroughs such as a formula for the partition function p(n), which calculates the number of ways a positive integer can be expressed as a sum of positive integers.

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    Srinivasa Ramanujan was a renowned Indian mathematician who made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions despite having almost no formal training. Some of his most notable works included finding infinite series for pi and formulas for the partition of numbers. He had an uncanny ability to rapidly solve complex mathematical problems and discover new theorems and identities often with more insight within them than initially met the eye. His collaboration with mathematician G.H. Hardy resulted in breakthroughs such as a formula for the partition function p(n), which calculates the number of ways a positive integer can be expressed as a sum of positive integers.

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    Brief Introduction

    Born : 22 nd December, 1889 Erode, Presidency

    Died
    Residency

    : 26 th April, 1920 (aged 32)


    Chetput, Madras, Madras Presidency : Kumbakonam

    Nationality : Indian Alma Mater : Government Arts College Pachaiyappas College Academic Advisors : G.H. Hardy & J.E.Littlewood

    Known for

    : Ladau- Ramanujan constant Mock theta functions

    Ramanujan Conjecture
    Ramanujan Prime Ramanujan Soldner Constant

    Ramanujan theta function


    Ramanujans sum Rogers-ramanujan identities

    Hardy-ramanujan number

    Srinivasa Ramanujan, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. In mathematics, there is a distinction between having an insight and having a proof. Ramanujan's talent suggested a plethora of formulae that could then be investigated in depth later. It is said that Ramanujan's discoveries are unusually rich and that there is often more to them than initially meets the eye. As a by-product, new directions of research were opened up. Examples of the most interesting of these formulae include the intriguing infinite series for .

    One of his remarkable capabilities was the rapid solution for problems.
    He was sharing a room with P. C. Mahalanobis who had a problem, "Imagine that you are on a street with houses marked 1 through n. There is a house in between (x) such that the sum of the house numbers to left of it equals the sum of the house numbers to its right. If n is between 50 and 500, what are n and x?
    Ramanujan thought about it and gave the answer with a twist: He gave a continued fraction. The unusual part was that it was the solution to the whole class of problems. Mahalanobis was astounded and asked how he did it. "It is simple. The minute I heard the problem, I knew that the answer was a continued fraction. Which continued fraction, I asked myself. Then the answer came to my mind," Ramanujan replied.

    Hardy-Ramanujan Collaboration
    One remarkable result of their collaboration was a formula for the number p(n) of partitions of a number n. A partition of a positive integer n is just an expression for n as a sum of positive integers, regardless of order. The problem of finding p(n) was studied by Euler, who found a formula for the generating function of p(n). While this allows one to calculate p(n) recursively, it doesn't lead to an explicit formula. Hardy and Ramanujan came up with such a formula.

    Hardy-Ramanujan Number (1729)


    I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."

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