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Srinivasa Ramanujan (Biography)

Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (1887 - 1920) Indian mathematician who made significant contributions to the development of partition functions and summation formulas involving constants such as $ \pi$. 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.



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See Also: Ramanujan tau function

Other names:  Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan, Ramanujan
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Cross-references: summation, partition functions, development
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AMS MSC: 01A55 (History and biography :: History of mathematics and mathematicians :: 19th century)
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