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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><i><i>Srinivasa<\/i> <i>Ramanujan<\/i><\/i> Aiyangar<\/b><sup id= cite_ref-4 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#cite_note-4\"> [ a ]<\/a> <\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society\" title=\"Fellow of the Royal Society\">FRS<\/a> (22 December 1887 \u2013 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, despite having almost no formal training in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pure_mathematics\" title=\"Pure mathematics\">pure mathematics<\/a>. He made substantial contributions to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mathematical_analysis\" title=\"Mathematical analysis\">mathematical analysis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Number_theory\" title=\"Number theory\">number theory<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Infinite_series\" title=\"Infinite series\">infinite series<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Continued_fraction\" title=\"Continued fraction\">continued fractions<\/a>, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable.<\/p>\n<p><i>Ramanujan<\/i> initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hans_Eysenck\" title=\"Hans Eysenck\">Hans Eysenck<\/a>, \u201che tried to interest the leading professional mathematicians in his work, but failed for the most part. What he had to show them was too novel, too unfamiliar, and additionally presented in unusual ways; they could not be bothered\u201d.<sup id=\u201d cite_ref-5\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#cite_note-5\"> [ 4 ]<\/a> <\/sup> Seeking mathematicians who could better understand his work, in 1913 he began a mail correspondence with the English mathematician <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G._H._Hardy\" title=\"G. H. Hardy\">G. H. Hardy<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Cambridge\" title=\"University of Cambridge\">University of Cambridge<\/a>, England. Recognising <i>Ramanujan<\/i>\u2019s work as extraordinary, Hardy arranged for him to travel to Cambridge. In his notes, Hardy commented that <i>Ramanujan<\/i> had produced groundbreaking new <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theorem\" title=\"Theorem\">theorems<\/a>, including some that \u201cdefeated me completely; I had never seen anything in the least like them before\u201d,<sup id=\u201d cite_ref-6\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#cite_note-6\"> [ 5 ]<\/a> <\/sup> and some recently proven but highly advanced results.<\/p>\n<p>During his short life, <i>Ramanujan<\/i> independently compiled nearly 3,900 results (mostly identities and equations).<sup id= cite_ref-7 class= reference> [ 6 ] <\/sup> Many were completely novel; his original and highly unconventional results, such as the <i>Ramanujan<\/i> prime, the <i>Ramanujan<\/i> theta function, partition formulae and mock theta functions, have opened entire new areas of work and inspired further research.<sup id= cite_ref-ono_8-0 class= reference> [ 7 ] <\/sup> Of his thousands of results, most have been proven correct.<sup id= cite_ref-frontline_9-0 class= reference> [ 8 ] <\/sup> <i>The <i>Ramanujan<\/i> <i>Journal<\/i><\/i>, a scientific journal, was established to publish work in all areas of mathematics influenced by <i>Ramanujan<\/i>,<sup id= cite_ref-10 class= reference> [ 9 ] <\/sup> and his notebooks\u2014containing summaries of his published and unpublished results\u2014have been analysed and studied for decades since his death as a source of new mathematical ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar [ a ] FRS (22 December 1887 \u2013 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, despite having almost no formal training in pure mathematics. He made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}