Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 in Erode, a small town in Tamil Nadu, India, into a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family. His father, Kuppuswamy Srinivasa Iyengar, worked as a clerk in a sari ...
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Ramanujan: Eternal lamp in the temple of mathematics
India, April 26 -- On April 26, 1920, the nation lost Srinivasa Ramanujan a rare mathematical genius. His mathematical consciousness illuminated the world for eternity. This is not merely his death ...
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Ramanujan’s genius π formulas from a century ago might help explain the deepest secrets of the universe
In 1914, Srinivasa Ramanujan arrived at Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 extraordinary infinite series for 1/π. They were strikingly efficient, producing accurate digits of the world’s most ...
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