Today we remember the early death (at age of 32) of Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) An Indian mathematician who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. Living in India with no access to the larger mathematical community, which was centred in Europe at the time, Ramanujan developed his own mathematical research in isolation. As a result, he rediscovered known theorems in addition to producing new work. Ramanujan was said to be a natural genius by the English mathematician G. H. Hardy, in the same league as mathematicians such as Euler and Gauss Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan bit.ly/1iYN9rX an interesting story While Ramanujan was in hospital in England, his Cambridge professor, G. H. Hardy, visited and remarked that he had taken taxi number 1729, a singularly unexceptional number. Ramanujan immediately responded that this number was actually quite remarkable: it is the smallest integer that can be represented in two ways by the sum of two cubes: 1729=1^3+12^3=9^3+10^3 ..........read more: bit.ly/1iYN9rX
Posted on: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 16:37:03 +0000
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