story of ramanujan?
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Born
22 December 1887
Erode, Madras Presidency, British India (present-day Tamil Nadu, India)
Died
26 April 1920 (aged 32)
Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency, British India (present-day Tamil Nadu, India)
Residence
Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency, British India (present-day Tamil Nadu, India)
Madras, Madras Presidency, British India (present-day Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India)
London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (present-day United Kingdom)
Nationality
Indian
Education
Government Arts College (no degree)
Pachaiyappa's College (no degree)
Trinity College, Cambridge (BSc, 1916)
Known for
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
Ramanujan–Sato series
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
Trinity College, Cambridge
Thesis
Highly Composite Numbers (1916)
Academic advisors
G. H. Hardy
J. E. Littlewood
Influences
G. S. Carr
Influenced
G. H. Hardy
Srinivasa Ramanujan born on 22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920)was an Indian mathematician who lived during the British Rule in India. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered to be unsolvable. Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation: "He tried to interest the leading professional mathematicians in his work, but failed for the most part. What he had to show them was too novel, too unfamiliar, and additionally presented in unusual ways; they could not be bothered".[3] Seeking mathematicians who could better understand his work, in 1913 he began a postal partnership with the English mathematician G. H. Hardy at the University of Cambridge, England. Recognizing the extraordinary work sent to him as samples, Hardy arranged travel for Ramanujan to Cambridge. In his notes, Ramanujan had produced groundbreaking new theorems, including some that Hardy stated had "defeated [him and his colleagues] completely", in addition to rediscovering recently proven but highly advanced results.