Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan
1887 - 1920
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Ramanujan made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.
Mathematicians born in the same country
| Honours awarded to Srinivasa Ramanujan (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| Fellow of the Royal Society | 1918 |
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Other Web sites
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Astroseti (A Spanish translation of this biography)
- Srinivasa Rao
- A Sen (An article about the influence of Carr's book on Ramanujan)
- Kevin Brown (Something else about 1729)
- N K Ingle (His influence on Chandrasekhar)
- G H Hardy (Chapter 1 of Ramanujan: 12 lectures on subjects suggested by his life and work)
- Mathematical Genealogy Project
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