Remembering C P Ramanujam.on his Birth anniversary. Chakravarthi Padmanabhan Ramanujam (9 January 1938 – 27 October 1974) was an Indian mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and algebraic geometry. He was elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1973. C. P. Ramanujam was born in 1938 in Chennai. In the year 1957 he joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research with two of his other friends. Like his namesake Srinivasa Ramanujan, Ramanujam also had a very short life. As David Mumford put it, Ramanujam felt that the spirit of mathematics demanded of him not merely routine developments but the right theorem on any given topic. He wanted mathematics to be beautiful and to be clear and simple. He was sometimes tormented by the difficulty of these high standards, but in retrospect, it is clear to us how often he succeeded in adding to our knowledge, results both new, beautiful and with a genuinely original stamp.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 06:44:39 +0000
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