Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work by G. H. Hardy

Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work



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Formal education At the age of 12, Ramanujan is said to have worked out the properties of arithmetical, geometrical and harmonic progressions. Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by his Life and Work. Retrieved August 12, 2007, from the World Wide Web http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/BBhistory.html. Loney that he mastered by the age of 12; he even discovered theorems of his own, and re-discovered Euler's identity independently. Hardy's Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by his Life and Work. This year is the 125th birth anniversary of the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. 3 (Lecture I) of the collection "Ramanujan: twelve lectures on subjects suggested by his life and work". The presentation we have offered above is from G. He demonstrated a natural ability, and was given books on advanced trigonometry written by S. He demonstrated unusual He joined another college to pursue independent mathematical research, working as a clerk in the Accountant-General's office at the Madras Port Trust Office to support himself. The nation is celebrating it as the Year of Mathematics. Once a senior Partly due to his pre-occupation with researches into mathematics, he neglected the study of other subjects. In these lectures, I will present an account of his romantic life, provide a few glimpses into his mathematics and relate the increasing interest in his work and its relevance even today.