Srinivas Ramanujan - The Great Indian Mathematician

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Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS born Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar; 22 December

1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician who lived during the

British Rule in India. Though he had almost no formal training in pure

mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis,

number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including

solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable. Ramanujan

initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation: according

to Hans Eysenck: "He tried to interest the leading professional

mathematicians in his work, but failed for the most part. What he had to

show them was too novel, too unfamiliar, and additionally presented in

unusual ways; they could not be bothered". Seeking mathematicians who

could better understand his work, in 1913 he began a postal partnership

with the English mathematician G. H. Hardy at the University of Cambridge,

England. Recognizing Ramanujan's work as extraordinary, Hardy arranged for

him to travel to Cambridge. In his notes, Hardy commented that Ramanujan

had produced groundbreaking new theorems, including some that "defeated me

completely; I had never seen anything in the least like them before", and

some recently proven but highly advanced results.

  

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