Srinivasa RamanujanKatelyn Murray2nd Quarter Extra CreditCalculus per. 8

BackgroundBorn December 22, 1887 in Erode, South IndiaRamanujan was born into a family that was very poor and that had no distinguished professional achievementsBut his family was respected socially because his grandfather was a minor official in a local court

BackgroundAfter his birth in Erode, his mother and father moved with him to the town of Kumbakonam, which is where he grew upRamanujan, the family name, means person who contains a particle of the god RamaSrinivasa, his personal name, means prosperous, or more literally one who abides in wealth

BackgroundHis 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

BackgroundRamanujan 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

BackgroundAfter receiving very high marks on a competitive examination Ramanujan was given a scholarship to the local college, the Government College at KumbakonanThere he excelled in mathematics but found every other subject distasteful and refused to focus on any other subject besides mathematicsHe failed all of his finals except for mathematics causing him to lose his scholarship

BackgroundFinding 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 1914His health quickly began to deteriorate and he contracted tuberculosisIn 1916 Ramanujan was awarded his B.A. for his mathematical studies

BackgroundIn 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

BackgroundAt the end of 1918 Ramanujan became a Fellow of Trinity of the University of Cambridge and was the first Indian to ever be so honoredIn 1919 his health became so bad that he returned to India where he could receive the comfort and care he needed from his familyIn 1920, at the age of 32, Ramanujan died from tuberculosis and a liver disease

AccomplishmentsCalculated Eulers constant to 15 decimal places

Studies Bernoulli numbers and elliptical functions

AccomplishmentsStudied continued fractions and divergent series

Developed relations between elliptic modular equations

AccomplishmentsWas recognized for his work in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society

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

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

AccomplishmentsUnpublished noteooks filled with theorems have been studied by other mathematiciansHis work inspired G. N. Watsons published papers Theorems stated by Ramanujan

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Had an Indian stamp made in his honor

Works CitedHoffman, Mike. "Srinivasa Ramanujan."

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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. .

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

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