Srinivasa ramanujan iyengar biography of albert

Introduction

Srinivasa Ramanujan has been hailed as a natural mathematical genius and compared to all time great mathematicians Euler and Gauss, by his friend, philosopher and guide, G H Hardy.

Srinivasa ramanujan contribution to mathematics

Describe the biography and achievements of srinivasa ramanujan

Srinivasa ramanujan childhood

Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar, who was born on December 22, Living in the British Raj, he worked in the fields of Number Theory and.

Lived - Srinivasa Ramanujan was a largely self-taught pure mathematician.

In 1940, Hardy gave two lectures at Yale University, which were subsequently published as a book [1] entitled: "Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures inspired by his life and work". Earlier, in 1927, Hardy, along with Dewan Bahadur Ramachandra Rao and P V Seshu Iyer, brought out the "Collected papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan", which have been more recently reprinted [2], in 1999, by the American Mathematical Society and the London Mathematical Society.

This reprinting of the two volumes at the dawn of this century clearly is an indication of the intrinsic worth of the work of Ramanujan in his brief life span of 32 years, 4 months and 4 days, of which he spent five years, 1914-919, at the Trinity College, Cambridge University.

Hardy convinced the authorities to award to Ramanujan the BA degree, by