Srinivasa Ramanujan

Dream 2047, February 2012, Vol. 14 No. 5

(22 December 188726 April 1920)

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National Mathematical Year - 2012

Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) is one of the greatest
Mathematicians of the twentieth century. In recognition of his
contribution to mathematics, the Indian government has decided
to celebrate Ramanujans birthday (22 December) as the National
Mathematics Day every year and declared 2012 as the National
Mathematical Year.
Vigyan Prasar has planned the following programmes to
celebrate the National Mathematical Year 2012:
Television serials on Mathematics
Radio serials on Mathematics
Publications (Books, CDs, Posters)
Workshops
Kits

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Srinivasa Ramanujan
Well known mathematicians Professors G.H. Hardy and J.E.
Littlewood compared Ramajuans mathematical abilities and natural
genius with all-time great mathematicians like Leonhard Euler, Carl
Friedrich Gauss and Karl Gustav Jacobi.
The influence of Ramanujan on number theory is without
parallel in mathematics. His papers, problems and letters would
continue to captivate mathematicians in the future. He rediscovered
a century of mathematics and made new discoveries.
Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar (best known as Srinivasa
Ramanujan) was born on 22 December, 1887, in Erode about 400
km from Chennai (formerly known as Madras). While at school,
Ramanujan came across a book entitled "A Synopsis of Elementary
Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics" by George Shoobridge
Carr. This book had a great influence on Ramanujans career. G.H.
Hardy (1877 1947), a prominent English mathematician wrote
about the book: He (Carr) is now completely forgotten, even in
his college, except in so far as Ramanujan kept his name alive.
Ramanujan solved all the problems in Carrs Synopsis. While working
on Carrs Synopsis, he discovered many others new formulae, and he
began the practice of compiling a notebook. Between 1903 and
1914 he had compiled three notebooks.
Much of Ramanujans mathematics comes under the field of
number theory a purest realm of mathematics. During his short
lifetime, Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3900 results
(mostly identities and equations). He stated results that were both
original and highly unconventional, such as the Ramanujan prime
and the Ramanujan theta function, and these have inspired a vast
amount of further research in the area of mathematics.
Rintu Nath
Email: rnath@vigyanprasar.gov.in

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