Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (1887 - 1920) Indian mathematician who made significant contributions to the development of partition functions and summation formulas involving constants such as . 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 |
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Canonical name | SrinivasaRamanujan |
Date of creation | 2013-03-22 16:17:18 |
Last modified on | 2013-03-22 16:17:18 |
Owner | PrimeFan (13766) |
Last modified by | PrimeFan (13766) |
Numerical id | 5 |
Author | PrimeFan (13766) |
Entry type | Biography |
Classification | msc 01A60 |
Classification | msc 01A55 |
Synonym | Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan |
Synonym | Ramanujan |
Related topic | RamanujanTauFunction |