Srinivasa RamanujanKatelyn Murray2nd Quarter Extra CreditCalculus per. 8

Background} Born December 22, 1887 in Erode, South

India} Ramanujan was born into a family that

was very poor and that had no distinguished professional achievements

} But his family was respected socially because his grandfather was a minor official in a local court

Background} After his birth in Erode, his mother and

father moved with him to the town of Kumbakonam, which is where he grew up

} Ramanujan, the family name, means person who contains a particle of the god Rama

} Srinivasa, his personal name, means prosperous, or more literally one who abides in wealth

Background} His family would sometimes take in

boarder students, which is how he was first introduced to formal mathematics

} At the age of twelve one of the students lent him a trigonometry book and within a year he mastered it

Background} Ramanujan was given George Carrs

Synopsis of elementary results in pure and applied mathematics which contained over 6,000 theorems in all fields of mathematics. He discovered that he could derive results the were not in the encyclopedia, beginning Ramanujans mathematical productions and predicted what was to come of his mathematical career

Background} After receiving very high marks on a

competitive examination Ramanujan was given a scholarship to the local college, the Government College at Kumbakonan

} There he excelled in mathematics but found every other subject distasteful and refused to focus on any other subject besides mathematics

} He failed all of his finals except for mathematics causing him to lose his scholarship

Background} Finding it hard to find a job and one that

would allow Ramanujan to continue to work on his mathematics, Ramanujan moved from India to England in March of 1914

} His health quickly began to deteriorate and he contracted tuberculosis

} In 1916 Ramanujan was awarded his B.A. for his mathematical studies

Background} In December of 1917 Ramanujan was

elected to the London Mathematical society

} In 1918, at the age of 30, he was inducted into the Royal Society as a Fellow. This was considered an extreme honor for such a young man and he was one of few non-Britains to receive such an honor

Background} At the end of 1918 Ramanujan became a

Fellow of Trinity of the University of Cambridge and was the first Indian to ever be so honored

} In 1919 his health became so bad that he returned to India where he could receive the comfort and care he needed from his family

} In 1920, at the age of 32, Ramanujan died from tuberculosis and a liver disease

Accomplishments}Calculated Eulers

constant to 15 decimal places

} Studies Bernoulli numbers and elliptical functions

Accomplishments} Studied continued

fractions and divergent series

} Developed relations between elliptic modular equations

Accomplishments}Was recognized for

his work in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society

Accomplishments}Worked out the

Riemann series, the elliptical integrals, hypergeometricseries and functional equations of the zeta function

Accomplishments}Work on partial

sums and products of hypergeometricseries have led to the other major developments in those topics

Accomplishments} Unpublished

noteooks filled with theorems have been studied by other mathematicians

} His work inspired G. N. Watsons published papers Theorems stated by Ramanujan

Accomplishments

} Had an Indian stamp made in his honor

Works Cited} Hoffman, Mike. "Srinivasa Ramanujan."

Notable Mathematicians. United States Naval Academy, 2012. Web. 24 Jan 2012. .

} J J, O, and Robertson E F. "SrinivasaAiyangar Ramanujan." Gap system. University of St,Andrews, 1998. Web. 24 Jan 2012. .

Works Cited} . "Srinivasa Ramanujan, A Remarkable

Mathematical Genius." Vigyan PrasarScience Portal: For anything and everything on science from India. Vigyan Prasar Science Portal, n.d. Web. 24 Jan 2012. .

Works Cited} . "Srinivasa Ramanujan Biography."

iloveindia. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Jan 2012. .

}Watkins, T.. "Srinivasa ramanujan, a mathematician brilliant beyond comparison." . N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Jan 2012. .

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