Srinivasa Ramanujan


Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (1887 - 1920) Indian mathematician who made significant contributions to the development of partition functionsPlanetmathPlanetmath and summation formulas involving constants such as π. He is best known for an anecdote of a discussion he had with G. H. Hardy on the dullness of 1729.

Some of his discoveries have been found to have applications in physics, particularly crystallography.

Title Srinivasa Ramanujan
Canonical name SrinivasaRamanujan
Date of creation 2013-03-22 16:17:18
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Entry type Biography
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Synonym Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan
Synonym Ramanujan
Related topic RamanujanTauFunction