Written as pure mathematics in 1914, Ramanujan’s formulas lay unnoticed for a century. Scientists now say they mirror the physics of black holes and quantum systems ....
NationalMathematics Day celebrates Srinivasa Ramanujan’s birth anniversary and honours his timeless contributions to mathematics and India’s intellectual growth ....
Early life and self-taught geniusBorn in colonial India, in Erode, Tamil Nadu, Srinivasa Ramanujan ignored everything but math from age 10, ignoring other subjects ... He invented Ramanujan summation for divergent series.
Dr Smith received the award for his work on congruent number problems, inspired by Srinivasa Ramanujan. A Princeton-Harvard-Stanford graduate, he is among the 20 recipients of the Sastra-Ramanujan ...
And if anybody personified this surprising mathematical beauty, it would have to be Srinivasa Ramanujan... Ramanujan, even then, had found results whose importance would not be fully appreciated for decades.
An IISc team has linked Ramanujan’s clever formulae to calculate π to ideas used in modern physics; the work hints that abstract mathematics and theories of boiling fluids or expanding universes could be closely connected ....