Name : Srinivasa Ramanujan - A Famous Mathematician
Country : India
Period : Born : 22nd December 1887
: Died : 26th April 1920
Age : 32 years
Mother : Mrs.Komalathammal
Father : Mr. K.Srinivasa Iyengar
Spouse : Mrs. Janakiammal
Once of the favourite pastimes of Sri Ramanujan
was the construction of magic squares, Playing with numbers. This one
is built round his date of birth, December 22, 1887. Added any way,
vertically, horizontally or diagonally, the numbers add up to 139.
Ramanujan
was born on 22 December 1887 in Tamil Nadu at the residence of his
maternal grandparents His father, K. Srinivasa Iyengar, worked as a
clerk in a sari shop and hailed from the district of Thanjavur. His
mother, Komalatammal, was a housewife and also sang at a local temple.
Knowledge is like the Ocean, says the Indian Tradition: limitless, it knows no boundaries.
Mathematics:
By
the time he was about fourteen, his interest in mathematics was
unmistakable. He could solve problems in Trigonometry which some
college students in the neighbourhood were struggling with. And, with
the help of those contacts, Ramanujan gained access to a book that was
to shape his destiny; this was G.S. Carr's Synopsis of Pure Mathematics.
The Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on 22
December 1887 and died on 26 April 1920. It was in recognition of his
contribution to mathematics the Government of India
decided to celebrate Ramanujan's birthday as the National Mathematics
Day every year and to celebrate 2012 as the National Mathematical Year.
In
December 2011, as part of the celebrations of the 125th
anniversary of Ramanujan's birth, TIFR republished the notebooks in a colored two-volume collector's edition. These were produced from
scanned and microfilmed images of the original manuscripts by expert
archivists of Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai.
In the
midst of his worst sickness, Ramanujan never lost his alertness. When
he was in the nursing home at Putney, London, Mr.Hardy came to visit
him. To humour the patient, Hardy said, "I came by taxi, no. 1729.
What do you find in it?"
Ramanujan
smiled and said, "It is a beautiful number: it is the smallest number,
that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
1729 = 103 + 93
1729 = 123 + 13
It is
generally believed that Mr. Hardy chose Ramanujan and supported him.
But, in characteristic detachment, Hardy says " I owe more to Ramanujan
than to anyone else" and in a reminiscent article he added, "It is
obvious that my association with Ramanujan and Littlewood was the
decisive event of my life. In a personal rating of mathematicians on
the basis of pure talent, Hardy gave himself a score of 25, Littlewood
30, Hilbert 80 and Ramanujan 100. Theirs was the noblest instance of
Indo-British collaboration.
Ramanujan was best known for his greatest theories and methodologies:Landau-Ramanujan Constant
Mock theta functions
Ramanujan conjecture
Ramanujan Prime
Ramanujan-Soldner Constant
Ramanujan theta function
Ramanujan's sum
Rogers-Ramanujan identities
Ramanujan's master theorem
Note Books:
Notebooks
1, 2 and 3 were published as a two-volume set in 1957 by the Tata
Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India. This was a
photocopy edition of the original manuscripts, in his own handwriting.
Ramanujan returned to Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency
in 1919 and died soon thereafter at the age of 32 in 1920. His widow,
S. Janaki Ammal, moved to Mumbai, but returned to Chennai (formerly
Madras) in 1950, where she lived until her death at age 94 in 1994. "Ramanujan's
brief life and death are symbolic of conditions in India. Of our
millions how few get any education at all, how many live on the verge of
starvation; of even those who get some education how many have nothing
to look forward to but a clerkship in some office... If life
opened its gates to them and offered them food and healthy conditions of
living and education and opportunities of growth, how many among these
millions would be eminent scientists, technicians, industrialists,
writers and artists, helping to build a new India and a new world?"
-- Sri Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian first Prime Minister and Freedom fighter.
excelente resumen de la vida de un genio, Ramanujan vivirá por siempre en los corazones de toda la humanidad.
ReplyDeleteSaludos desde Argentina.
Víctor Sosa
Gracias por tu comentario. De hecho, eres fiel a cada palabra, ya que Ramanujan fue un verdadero genio. Nunca veremos otro Ramanujan.
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