Srinivasa Ramanujan 1

Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan

Born 22 December 1887Erode, British India

Died 26 April 1920 (aged 32)Chetput, (Madras), British India

Residence India, U.K.

Nationality Indian

Fields Mathematics

Alma mater Government Arts College

Pachaiyappa's College
Cambridge University

Academic advisors G. H. Hardy

J. E. Littlewood

Known for Landau–Ramanujan constant

Mock theta functions
Ramanujan conjecture
Ramanujan prime
Ramanujan–Soldner constant
Ramanujan theta function
Ramanujan's sum
Rogers–Ramanujan identities

Srīnivāsa Aiyangār Rāmānujan FRS, better known as Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan pronunciation (Tamil:
சீனிவாச இராமானுஜன் or ஸ்ரீனிவாஸ ஐயங்கார் ராமானுஜன்) (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920)
was an Indian mathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made
substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions.
Ramanujan's talent was said by the English mathematician G.H. Hardy to be in the same league as legendary
mathematicians such as Euler, Gauss, Newton and Archimedes.[1]
Born in Erode, Tamil Nadu, India, Ramanujan first encountered formal mathematics at age 10. He demonstrated a
natural ability, and was given books on advanced trigonometry written by S. L. Loney.[2] He mastered them by age
12, and even discovered theorems of his own. He demonstrated unusual mathematical skills at school, winning
accolades and awards. By 17, Ramanujan conducted his own mathematical research on Bernoulli numbers and the
Euler–Mascheroni constant. He received a scholarship to study at Government College in Kumbakonam, but lost it
when he failed his non-mathematical coursework. 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.[3]
In 1912–1913, he sent samples of his theorems to three academics at the University of Cambridge. Only Hardy
recognized the brilliance of his work, subsequently inviting Ramanujan to visit and work with him at Cambridge. He
became a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, dying of illness, malnutrition and
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possibly liver infection in 1920 at the age of 32.

During his short lifetime, Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3900 results (mostly identities and
equations).[4] Although a small number of these results were actually false and some were already known, most of
his claims have now been proven correct.[5] He stated results that were both original and highly unconventional, such
as the Ramanujan prime and the Ramanujan theta function, and these have inspired a vast amount of further
research.[6] However, the mathematical mainstream has been rather slow in absorbing some of his major discoveries.
Recently, Ramanujan's formulae have found applications in crystallography and string theory. The Ramanujan
Journal, an international publication, was launched to publish work in all areas of mathematics influenced by his
work.[7]

Early life
Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 in the city Erode, Tamil
Nadu, India, at the residence of his maternal grandparents.[8] His
father, K. Srinivasa Iyengar worked as a clerk in a sari shop and hailed
from the district of Thanjavur.[9] His mother, Komalatammal or Komal
Ammal was a housewife and also sang at a local temple.[10] They lived
in Sarangapani Street in a traditional home in the town of
Kumbakonam. The family home is now a museum. When Ramanujan
was a year and a half old, his mother gave birth to a son named
Sadagopan, who died less than three months later. In December 1889,
Ramanujan had smallpox and recovered, unlike thousands in the
Thanjavur district who died from the disease that year.[11] He moved
with his mother to her parents' house in Kanchipuram, near Madras
(now Chennai). In November 1891, and again in 1894, his mother gave
birth, but both children died in infancy.

On 1 October 1892, Ramanujan was enrolled at the local school.[12] In Ramanujan's home on Sarangapani Street,
March 1894, he was moved to a Telugu medium school. After his Kumbakonam.
maternal grandfather lost his job as a court official in Kanchipuram,[13]
Ramanujan and his mother moved back to Kumbakonam and he was enrolled in the Kangayan Primary School.[14]
After his paternal grandfather died, he was sent back to his maternal grandparents, who were now living in Madras.
He did not like school in Madras, and he tried to avoid going to school. His family enlisted a local constable to make
sure he attended school. Within six months, Ramanujan was back in Kumbakonam.[14]

Since Ramanujan's father was at work most of the day, his mother took care of him as a child. He had a close
relationship with her. From her, he learned about tradition and puranas. He learned to sing religious songs, to attend
pujas at the temple and particular eating habits – all of which are part of Brahmin culture.[15] At the Kangayan
Primary School, Ramanujan performed well. Just before the age of 10, in November 1897, he passed his primary
examinations in English, Tamil, geography and arithmetic. With his scores, he finished first in the district.[16] That
year, Ramanujan entered Town Higher Secondary School where he encountered formal mathematics for the first
time.[16]
By age 11, he had exhausted the mathematical knowledge of two college students who were lodgers at his home. He
was later lent a book on advanced trigonometry written by S. L. Loney.[17] [18] He completely mastered this book by
the age of 13 and discovered sophisticated theorems on his own. By 14, he was receiving merit certificates and
academic awards which continued throughout his school career and also assisted the school in the logistics of
assigning its 1200 students (each with their own needs) to its 35-odd teachers.[19] He completed mathematical exams
in half the allotted time, and showed a familiarity with infinite series. When he was 16, Ramanujan came across the
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book A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics by George S. Carr.[20] This book was a
collection of 5000 theorems, and it introduced Ramanujan to the world of mathematics. The next year, he had
independently developed and investigated the Bernoulli numbers and had calculated Euler's constant up to 15
decimal places.[21] His peers of the time commented that they "rarely understood him" and "stood in respectful awe"
of him.[19]
When he graduated from Town Higher Secondary School in 1904, Ramanujan was awarded the K. Ranganatha Rao
prize for mathematics by the school's headmaster, Krishnaswami Iyer. Iyer introduced Ramanujan as an outstanding
student who deserved scores higher than the maximum possible marks.[19] He received a scholarship to study at
Government College in Kumbakonam,[22] [23] However, Ramanujan was so intent on studying mathematics that he
could not focus on any other subjects and failed most of them, losing his scholarship in the process.[24] In August
1905, he ran away from home, heading towards Visakhapatnam.[25] He later enrolled at Pachaiyappa's College in
Madras. He again excelled in mathematics but performed poorly in other subjects such as physiology. Ramanujan
failed his Fine Arts degree exam in December 1906 and again a year later. Without a degree, he left college and
continued to pursue independent research in mathematics. At this point in his life, he lived in extreme poverty and
was often on the brink of starvation.[26]

Adulthood in India
On 14 July 1909, Ramanujan was married to a nine-year old bride, Janaki Ammal.[27] – in the branch of Hinduism to
which Ramanujan belonged, marriage was a formal engagement that was consummated only after the bride turned
17 or 18, as per the traditional calendar.
After the marriage, Ramanujan developed a hydrocele testis, an abnormal swelling of the tunica vaginalis, an internal
membrane in the testicle.[28] The condition could be treated with a routine surgical operation that would release the
blocked fluid in the scrotal sac. His family did not have the money for the operation, but in January 1910, a doctor
volunteered to do the surgery for free.[29]
After his successful surgery, Ramanujan searched for a job. He stayed at friends' houses while he went door to door
around the city of Madras (now Chennai) looking for a clerical position. To make some money, he tutored some
students at Presidency College who were preparing for their F.A. exam.[30]
In late 1910, Ramanujan was sick again, possibly as a result of the surgery earlier in the year. He feared for his
health, and even told his friend, R. Radakrishna Iyer, to "hand these [my mathematical notebooks] over to Professor
Singaravelu Mudaliar [mathematics professor at Pachaiyappa's College] or to the British professor Edward B. Ross,
of the Madras Christian College."[31] After Ramanujan recovered and got back his notebooks from Iyer, he took a
northbound train from Kumbakonam to Villupuram, a coastal city under French control.[32] [33]

Attention from mathematicians

He met deputy collector V. Ramaswamy Aiyer, who had recently founded the Indian Mathematical Society.[34]
Ramanujan, wishing for a job at the revenue department where Aiyer worked, showed him his mathematics
notebooks. As Aiyer later recalled:
I was struck by the extraordinary mathematical results contained in it [the notebooks]. I had no mind to
smother his genius by an appointment in the lowest rungs of the revenue department.[35]
Aiyer sent Ramanujan, with letters of introduction, to his mathematician friends in Madras.[34] Some of these friends
looked at his work and gave him letters of introduction to R. Ramachandra Rao, the district collector for Nellore and
the secretary of the Indian Mathematical Society.[36] [37] [38] Ramachandra Rao was impressed by Ramanujan's
research but doubted that it was actually his own work. Ramanujan mentioned a correspondence he had with
Professor Saldhana, a notable Bombay mathematician, in which Saldhana expressed a lack of understanding for his
work but concluded that he was not a phony.[39] Ramanujan's friend, C. V. Rajagopalachari, persisted with
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Ramachandra Rao and tried to quell any doubts over Ramanujan's academic integrity. Rao agreed to give him
another chance, and he listened as Ramanujan discussed elliptic integrals, hypergeometric series, and his theory of
divergent series, which Rao said ultimately "converted" him to a belief in Ramanujan's mathematical brilliance.[39]
When Rao asked him what he wanted, Ramanujan replied that he needed some work and financial support. Rao
consented and sent him to Madras. He continued his mathematical research with Rao's financial aid taking care of his
daily needs. Ramanujan, with the help of V. Ramaswamy Aiyer, had his work published in the Journal of Indian
Mathematical Society.[40]
One of the first problems he posed in the journal was:

He waited for a solution to be offered in three issues, over six months, but failed to receive any. At the end,
Ramanujan supplied the solution to the problem himself. On page 105 of his first notebook, he formulated an
equation that could be used to solve the infinitely nested radicals problem.

Using this equation, the answer to the question posed in the Journal was simply 3.[41] Ramanujan wrote his first
formal paper for the Journal on the properties of Bernoulli numbers. One property he discovered was that the
denominators (sequence A027642 [42] in OEIS) of the fractions of Bernoulli numbers were always divisible by six.
He also devised a method of calculating Bn based on previous Bernoulli numbers. One of these methods went as
follows:
It will be observed that if n is even but not equal to zero,
(i) Bn is a fraction and the numerator of in its lowest terms is a prime number,

(ii) the denominator of Bn contains each of the factors 2 and 3 once and only once,
(iii) is an integer and consequently is an odd integer.

In his 17–page paper, "Some Properties of Bernoulli's Numbers", Ramanujan gave three proofs, two corollaries and
three conjectures.[43] Ramanujan's writing initially had many flaws. As Journal editor M. T. Narayana Iyengar noted:
Mr. Ramanujan's methods were so terse and novel and his presentation so lacking in clearness and
precision, that the ordinary [mathematical reader], unaccustomed to such intellectual gymnastics, could
hardly follow him.[44]
Ramanujan later wrote another paper and also continued to provide problems in the Journal.[45] In early 1912, he got
a temporary job in the Madras Accountant General's office, with a salary of 20 rupees per month. He lasted for only
a few weeks.[46] Toward the end of that assignment he applied for a position under the Chief Accountant of the
Madras Port Trust. In a letter dated 9 February 1912, Ramanujan wrote:
Sir,
I understand there is a clerkship vacant in your office, and I beg to apply for the same. I have passed the
Matriculation Examination and studied up to the F.A. but was prevented from pursuing my studies
further owing to several untoward circumstances. I have, however, been devoting all my time to
Mathematics and developing the subject. I can say I am quite confident I can do justice to my work if I
am appointed to the post. I therefore beg to request that you will be good enough to confer the
appointment on me.[47]
Attached to his application was a recommendation from E. W. Middlemast, a mathematics professor at the
Presidency College, who wrote that Ramanujan was "a young man of quite exceptional capacity in Mathematics".[48]
Three weeks after he had applied, on 1 March, Ramanujan learned that he had been accepted as a Class III, Grade IV
accounting clerk, making 30 rupees per month.[49] At his office, Ramanujan easily and quickly completed the work
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he was given, so he spent his spare time doing mathematical research. Ramanujan's boss, Sir Francis Spring, and S.
Narayana Iyer, a colleague who was also treasurer of the Indian Mathematical Society, encouraged Ramanujan in his
mathematical pursuits.

Contacting English mathematicians

Spring, Narayana Iyer, Ramachandra Rao and E. W. Middlemast tried to present Ramanujan's work to British
mathematicians. One mathematician, M. J. M. Hill of University College London, commented that Ramanujan's
papers were riddled with holes.[50] He said that although Ramanujan had "a taste for mathematics, and some ability",
he lacked the educational background and foundation needed to be accepted by mathematicians.[51] Although Hill
did not offer to take Ramanujan on as a student, he did give thorough and serious professional advice on his work.
With the help of friends, Ramanujan drafted letters to leading mathematicians at Cambridge University.[52]
The first two professors, H. F. Baker and E. W. Hobson, returned Ramanujan's papers without comment.[53] On 16
January 1913, Ramanujan wrote to G. H. Hardy. Coming from an unknown mathematician, the nine pages of
mathematical wonder made Hardy initially view Ramanujan's manuscripts as a possible "fraud".[54] Hardy
recognized some of Ramanujan's formulae but others "seemed scarcely possible to believe".[55] One of the theorems
Hardy found so incredible was found on the bottom of page three (valid for 0 < a < b + 1/2):

Hardy was also impressed by some of Ramanujan's other work relating to infinite series:

The first result had already been determined by a mathematician named Bauer. The second one was new to Hardy,
and was derived from a class of functions called a hypergeometric series which had first been researched by
Leonhard Euler and Carl Friedrich Gauss. Compared to Ramanujan's work on integrals, Hardy found these results
"much more intriguing".[56] After he saw Ramanujan's theorems on continued fractions on the last page of the
manuscripts, Hardy commented that the "[theorems] defeated me completely; I had never seen anything in the least
like them before".[57] He figured that Ramanujan's theorems "must be true, because, if they were not true, no one
would have the imagination to invent them".[57] Hardy asked a colleague, J. E. Littlewood, to take a look at the
papers. Littlewood was amazed by the mathematical genius of Ramanujan. After discussing the papers with
Littlewood, Hardy concluded that the letters were "certainly the most remarkable I have received" and commented
that Ramanujan was "a mathematician of the highest quality, a man of altogether exceptional originality and
power".[58] One colleague, E. H. Neville, later commented that "not one [theorem] could have been set in the most
advanced mathematical examination in the world".[59]
On 8 February 1913, Hardy wrote a letter to Ramanujan, expressing his interest for his work. Hardy also added that
it was "essential that I should see proofs of some of your assertions".[60] Before his letter arrived in Madras during
the third week of February, Hardy contacted the Indian Office to plan for Ramanujan's trip to Cambridge. Secretary
Arthur Davies of the Advisory Committee for Indian Students met with Ramanujan to discuss the overseas trip.[61]
In accordance with his Brahmin upbringing, Ramanujan refused to leave his country to "go to a foreign land".[62]
Meanwhile, Ramanujan sent a letter packed with theorems to Hardy, writing, "I have found a friend in you who
views my labour sympathetically."[63]
To supplement Hardy's endorsement, a former mathematical lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, Gilbert Walker,
looked at Ramanujan's work and expressed amazement, urging him to spend time at Cambridge.[64] As a result of
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Walker's endorsement, B. Hanumantha Rao, a mathematics professor at an engineering college, invited Ramanujan's
colleague Narayana Iyer to a meeting of the Board of Studies in Mathematics to discuss "what we can do for S.
Ramanujan".[65] The board agreed to grant Ramanujan a research scholarship of 75 rupees per month for the next
two years at the University of Madras.[66] While he was engaged as a research student, Ramanujan continued to
submit papers to the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society. In one instance, Narayana Iyer submitted some
theorems of Ramanujan on summation of series to the above mathematical journal adding “The following theorem is
due to S. Ramanujan, the mathematics student of Madras University”. Later in November, British Professor Edward
B. Ross of Madras Christian College, whom Ramanujan had met few years ago, stormed into his class one day with
his eyes glowing, asking his students, “Does Ramanujan know Polish?” The reason was that in one paper, Ramanujan
had anticipated the work of a Polish mathematician whose paper had just arrived by the day’s mail.[67] In his
quarterly papers, Ramanujan drew up theorems to make definite integrals more easily solvable. Working off
Giuliano Frullani's 1821 integral theorem, Ramanujan formulated generalizations that could be made to evaluate
formerly unyielding integrals.[68]
Hardy's correspondence with Ramanujan soured after Ramanujan refused to come to England. Hardy enlisted a
colleague lecturing in Madras, E. H. Neville, to mentor and bring Ramanujan to England.[69] Neville asked
Ramanujan why he would not go to Cambridge. Ramanujan apparently had now accepted the proposal; as Neville
put it, "Ramanujan needed no converting and that his parents' opposition had been withdrawn".[59] Apparently,
Ramanujan's mother had a vivid dream in which the family Goddess Namagiri commanded her "to stand no longer
between her son and the fulfillment of his life's purpose".[59]

Life in England
Ramanujan boarded the S.S. Nevasa on 17 March 1914, and at 10 o'clock in the morning, the ship departed from
Madras.[70] He arrived in London on 14 April, with E. H. Neville waiting for him with a car. Four days later, Neville
took him to his house on Chesterton Road in Cambridge. Ramanujan immediately began his work with Littlewood
and Hardy. After six weeks, Ramanujan moved out of Neville's house and took up residence on Whewell's Court,
just a five-minute walk from Hardy's room.[71] Hardy and Ramanujan began to take a look at Ramanujan's
notebooks. Hardy had already received 120 theorems from Ramanujan in the first two letters, but there were many
more results and theorems to be found in the notebooks. Hardy saw that some were wrong, some had already been
discovered, while the rest were new breakthroughs.[72] Ramanujan left a deep impression on Hardy and Littlewood.
Littlewood commented, "I can believe that he's at least a Jacobi",[73] while Hardy said he "can compare him only
with [Leonhard] Euler or Jacobi."[74]
Ramanujan spent nearly five years in Cambridge collaborating with Hardy and Littlewood and published a part of
his findings there. Hardy and Ramanujan had highly contrasting personalities. Their collaboration was a clash of
different cultures, beliefs and working styles. Hardy was an atheist and an apostle of proof and mathematical rigour,
whereas Ramanujan was a deeply religious man and relied very strongly on his intuition. While in England, Hardy
tried his best to fill the gaps in Ramanujan's education without interrupting his spell of inspiration.
Ramanujan was awarded a B.A. degree by research (this degree was later renamed PhD) in March 1916 for his work
on highly composite numbers, which was published as a paper in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society.
The paper was over 50 pages with different properties of such numbers proven. Hardy remarked that this was one of
the most unusual papers seen in mathematical research at that time and that Ramanujan showed extraordinary
ingenuity in handling it. On 6 December 1917, he was elected to the London Mathematical Society. He became a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918, becoming the second Indian to do so, following Ardaseer Cursetjee in 1841,
and he was the youngest Fellow in the entire history of the Royal Society.[75] He was elected "for his investigation in
Elliptic functions and the Theory of Numbers." On 13 October 1918, he became the first Indian to be elected a
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[76]
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Illness and return to India

Plagued by health problems throughout his life, living in a country far away from home, and obsessively involved
with his mathematics, Ramanujan's health worsened in England, perhaps exacerbated by stress and by the scarcity of
vegetarian food during the First World War. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis and a severe vitamin deficiency and
was confined to a sanatorium.
Ramanujan returned to Kumbakonam, India in 1919 and died soon thereafter at the age of 32. His widow, S. Janaki
Ammal, lived in Chennai (formerly Madras) until her death in 1994.[77]
A 1994 analysis of Ramanujan's medical records and symptoms by Dr. D.A.B. Young concluded that it was much
more likely he had hepatic amoebiasis, a parasitic infection of the liver widespread in Madras, where Ramanujan had
spent time. He had two episodes of dysentery before he left India. When not properly treated dysentery can lie
dormant for years and lead to hepatic amoebiasis,[3] a difficult disease to diagnose, but once diagnosed readily
cured.[3]

Personality and spiritual life

Ramanujan has been described as a person with a somewhat shy and quiet disposition, a dignified man with pleasant
manners.[78] He lived a rather Spartan life while at Cambridge. Ramanujan's first Indian biographers describe him as
rigorously orthodox. Ramanujan credited his acumen to his family Goddess, Namagiri of Namakkal. He looked to
her for inspiration in his work,[79] and claimed to dream of blood drops that symbolised her male consort,
Narasimha, after which he would receive visions of scrolls of complex mathematical content unfolding before his
eyes.[80] He often said, "An equation for me has no meaning, unless it represents a thought of God."[81] [82]
Hardy cites Ramanujan as remarking that all religions seemed equally true to him.[83] Hardy further argued that
Ramanujan's religiousness had been romanticized by Westerners and overstated—in reference to his belief, not
practice—by Indian biographers. At the same time, he remarked on Ramanujan's strict observance of vegetarianism.

Mathematical achievements
In mathematics, there is a distinction between having an insight and having a proof. Ramanujan's talent suggested a
plethora of formulae that could then be investigated in depth later. It is said that Ramanujan's discoveries are
unusually rich and that there is often more to them than initially meets the eye. As a by-product, new directions of
research were opened up. Examples of the most interesting of these formulae include the intriguing infinite series for
π, one of which is given below

This result is based on the negative fundamental discriminant d = −4×58 with class number h(d) = 2 (note that
5×7×13×58 = 26390 and that 9801=99×99; 396=4×99) and is related to the fact that

Compare to Heegner numbers, which have class number 1 and yield similar formulae. Ramanujan's series for π
converges extraordinarily rapidly (exponentially) and forms the basis of some of the fastest algorithms currently used
to calculate π. Truncating the sum to the first term also gives the approximation for π, which is
correct to six decimal places.
One of his remarkable capabilities was the rapid solution for problems. He was sharing a room with P. C.
Mahalanobis who had a problem, "Imagine that you are on a street with houses marked 1 through n. There is a house
in between (x) such that the sum of the house numbers to left of it equals the sum of the house numbers to its right. If
n is between 50 and 500, what are n and x." This is a bivariate problem with multiple solutions. Ramanujan thought
about it and gave the answer with a twist: He gave a continued fraction. The unusual part was that it was the solution
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to the whole class of problems. Mahalanobis was astounded and asked how he did it. "It is simple. The minute I
heard the problem, I knew that the answer was a continued fraction. Which continued fraction, I asked myself. Then
the answer came to my mind", Ramanujan replied.[84] [85]
His intuition also led him to derive some previously unknown identities, such as

for all , where is the gamma function. Expanding into series of powers and equating coefficients of ,
, and gives some deep identities for the hyperbolic secant.
In 1918, Hardy and Ramanujan studied the partition function P(n) extensively and gave a non-convergent asymptotic
series that permits exact computation of the number of partitions of an integer. Hans Rademacher, in 1937, was able
to refine their formula to find an exact convergent series solution to this problem. Ramanujan and Hardy's work in
this area gave rise to a powerful new method for finding asymptotic formulae, called the circle method.[86]
He discovered mock theta functions in the last year of his life. For many years these functions were a mystery, but
they are now known to be the holomorphic parts of harmonic weak Maass forms.

The Ramanujan conjecture

Although there are numerous statements that could bear the name Ramanujan conjecture, there is one statement that
was very influential on later work. In particular, the connection of this conjecture with conjectures of André Weil in
algebraic geometry opened up new areas of research. That Ramanujan conjecture is an assertion on the size of the tau
function, which has as generating function the discriminant modular form Δ(q), a typical cusp form in the theory of
modular forms. It was finally proven in 1973, as a consequence of Pierre Deligne's proof of the Weil conjectures.
The reduction step involved is complicated. Deligne won a Fields Medal in 1978 for his work on Weil
conjectures.[87]

Ramanujan's notebooks
While still in India, Ramanujan recorded the bulk of his results in four notebooks of loose leaf paper. These results
were mostly written up without any derivations. This is probably the origin of the misperception that Ramanujan was
unable to prove his results and simply thought up the final result directly. Mathematician Bruce C. Berndt, in his
review of these notebooks and Ramanujan's work, says that Ramanujan most certainly was able to make the proofs
of most of his results, but chose not to.
This style of working may have been for several reasons. Since paper was very expensive, Ramanujan would do
most of his work and perhaps his proofs on slate, and then transfer just the results to paper. Using a slate was
common for mathematics students in India at the time. He was also quite likely to have been influenced by the style
of G. S. Carr's book, which stated results without proofs. Finally, it is possible that Ramanujan considered his
workings to be for his personal interest alone; and therefore only recorded the results.[88]
The first notebook has 351 pages with 16 somewhat organized chapters and some unorganized material. The second
notebook has 256 pages in 21 chapters and 100 unorganized pages, with the third notebook containing 33
unorganized pages. The results in his notebooks inspired numerous papers by later mathematicians trying to prove
what he had found. Hardy himself created papers exploring material from Ramanujan's work as did G. N. Watson, B.
M. Wilson, and Bruce Berndt.[88] A fourth notebook with 87 unorganized pages, the so-called "lost notebook", was
rediscovered in 1976 by George Andrews.[3]
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Hardy–Ramanujan number 1729

A common anecdote about Ramanujan relates to the number 1729. Hardy arrived at Ramanujan's residence in a cab
numbered 1729. Hardy commented that the number 1729 seemed to be uninteresting. Ramanujan is said to have
stated on the spot that it was actually a very interesting number mathematically, being the smallest natural number
representable in two different ways as a sum of two cubes:

Generalizations of this idea have spawned the notion of "taxicab numbers".

Other mathematicians' views of Ramanujan

Ramanujan is generally hailed as an all-time great like Carl Friedrich Gauss, Leonhard Euler and Carl Gustav Jacob
Jacobi, for his natural mathematical genius.[89] Hardy quotes: "The limitations of his knowledge were as startling as
its profundity. Here was a man who could work out modular equations and theorems... to orders unheard of, whose
mastery of continued fractions was... beyond that of any mathematician in the world, who had found for himself the
functional equation of the zeta function and the dominant terms of many of the most famous problems in the analytic
theory of numbers; and yet he had never heard of a doubly periodic function or of Cauchy's theorem, and had indeed
but the vaguest idea of what a function of a complex variable was...".[90] When asked about the methods employed
by Ramanujan to arrive at his solutions, Hardy said that they were "arrived at by a process of mingled argument,
intuition, and induction, of which he was entirely unable to give any coherent account."[91] He also stated that he had
"never met his equal, and can compare him only with Euler or Jacobi."[91]
Quoting K. Srinivasa Rao,[92] "As for his place in the world of Mathematics, we quote Bruce C. Berndt: 'Paul Erdős
has passed on to us Hardy's personal ratings of mathematicians. Suppose that we rate mathematicians on the basis of
pure talent on a scale from 0 to 100, Hardy gave himself a score of 25, J.E. Littlewood 30, David Hilbert 80 and
Ramanujan 100.'"
In his book Scientific Edge, noted physicist Jayant Narlikar spoke of "Srinivasa Ramanujan, discovered by the
Cambridge mathematician Hardy, whose great mathematical findings were beginning to be appreciated from 1915 to
1919. His achievements were to be fully understood much later, well after his untimely death in 1920. For example,
his work on the highly composite numbers (numbers with a large number of factors) started a whole new line of
investigations in the theory of such numbers."
During his lifelong mission in educating and propagating mathematics among the school children in India, Nigeria
and elsewhere, P.K. Srinivasan has continually introduced Ramanujan's mathematical works.

Recognition
Ramanujan's home state of Tamil Nadu celebrates 22 December (Ramanujan's birthday) as 'State IT Day',
memorializing both the man and his achievements, as a native of Tamil Nadu. A stamp picturing Ramanujan was
released by the Government of India in 1962 – the 75th anniversary of Ramanujan's birth – commemorating his
achievements in the field of number theory.
Since the Centennial year of Srinivasa Ramanujan,every year Dec 22nd, is Ramanujan Day for his hometown
College (Government Arts College(Autonomous)), Kumbakonam. It is celebrated by the Department Of
Mathematics by organising one-, two-, or three-day seminar by inviting eminent scholars from universities/colleges,
and participants are mainly students of Mathematics, research scholars, and professors from local colleges. It has
been planned to celebrate the 125-th birthday in a grand manner by inviting the foreign Eminent Mathematical
scholars of this century viz., G E Andrews. and Bruce C Berndt, who are very familiar with the contributions and
works of Ramanujan.
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Ever year, in Chennai (formerly Madras), the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Madras,Chennai), every Dec 22 is
a memorable day for Ramanujan. The Department of Mathematics celebrate this day by organising a National
Symposium On Mathematical Methods and Applications (NSMMA) for one day by inviting Eminent scholars
from India/Foreign countries.
A prize for young mathematicians from developing countries has been created in the name of Ramanujan by the
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), in cooperation with the International Mathematical Union, who
nominate members of the prize committee. The Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology, Research Academy
(SASTRA), based in the state of Tamil Nadu in South India, has instituted the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize of $10,000
to be given annually to a mathematician not exceeding the age of 32 for outstanding contributions in an area of
mathematics influenced by Ramanujan. The age limit refers to the years Ramanujan lived, having nevertheless still
achieved many accomplishments. This prize has been awarded annually since 2005, at an international conference
conducted by SASTRA in Kumbakonam, Ramanujan's hometown, around Ramanujan's birthday, December 22.

In popular culture
• An international feature film on Ramanujan's life was announced in 2006 as due to begin shooting in 2007. It was
to be shot in Tamil Nadu state and Cambridge and be produced by an Indo-British collaboration and co-directed
by Stephen Fry and Dev Benegal.[93] A play, First Class Man by Alter Ego Productions,[94] was based on David
Freeman's First Class Man. The play is centered around Ramanujan and his complex and dysfunctional
relationship with Hardy.
• Another film, based on the book The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert
Kanigel, is being made by Edward Pressman and Matthew Brown.[95]
• In the film Good Will Hunting, the eponymous character is compared to Ramanujan.
• "Gomez", a short story by Cyril Kornbluth, describes the conflicted life of an untutored mathematical genius,
clearly based on Ramanujan.
• A Disappearing Number is a recent British stage production by the company Complicite that explores the
relationship between Hardy and Ramanujan.
• The character Amita Ramanujan on the television show Numb3rs is named after Ramanujan.
• The novel The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt explores in fiction the events following Ramanujan's letter to
Hardy.
• An episode of Ancient Aliens produced by The History Channel mentions how Hardy met Ramanujan. It goes on
to mention that Ramanujan's work has application today in String Theory and might contain insights into future
applications in science including multiple dimensions, wormholes, levitation and more.

Notes
[1] C.P. Snow Foreword to "A Mathematician's Apology" by G.H. Hardy
[2] Berndt, Bruce C. (2001). Ramanujan: Essays and Surveys. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society. pp. 9.
ISBN 0-8218-2624-7.
[3] Peterson, Doug. "Raiders of the Lost Notebook" (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/ 20070517174549/ http:/ / www. las. uiuc. edu/ alumni/
news/ fall2006/ 06fall_lostnotebook. html). UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original (http:/ / www. las. uiuc.
edu/ alumni/ news/ fall2006/ 06fall_lostnotebook. html) on May 17, 2007. . Retrieved 2007-06-22.
[4] Berndt, Bruce C. (2005). Ramanujan's Notebooks Part V. SpringerLink. pp. 4. ISBN 0-387-94941-0.
[5] "Rediscovering Ramanujan" (http:/ / www. hinduonnet. com/ fline/ fl1617/ 16170810. htm). Frontline 16 (17): 650. August 1999. . Retrieved
2007-06-23.
[6] Ono, Ken; Rankin, Robert A. (June–July 2006). "Honoring a Gift from Kumbakonam" (http:/ / www. ams. org/ notices/ 200606/ fea-ono.
pdf) (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society (Mathematical Association of America) 53 (6): 650. doi:10.2307/2589114.
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[7] Alladi, Krishnaswami (1998). Analytic and Elementary Number Theory: A Tribute to Mathematical Legend Paul Erdös. Norwell,
Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 6. ISBN 0-7923-8273-0.
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[8] Kanigel, Robert (1991). The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 11.
ISBN 0-684-19259-4.
[9] Kanigel (1991), p. 17–18.
[10] Bruce C. Berndt; Robert Alexander Rankin (2001). Ramanujan: essays and surveys. AMS Bookstore. pp. 89. ISBN 0821826247, ISBN
978-0-8218-2624-9.
[11] Kanigel (1991), p12.
[12] Kanigel (1991), p13.
[13] Kanigel (1991), p19.
[14] Kanigel (1991), p14.
[15] Kanigel (1991), p20.
[16] Kanigel (1991), p25.
[17] Hardy, G. H. (1999). Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work. Providence, Rhode Island: American
Mathematical Society. pp. 2. ISBN 0-8218-2023-0.
[18] Berndt, Bruce C.; Robert A. Rankin (2001). Ramanujan: Essays and Surveys. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society.
pp. 9. ISBN 0-8218-2624-7.
[19] Kanigel (1991), p27.
[20] Kanigel (1991), p39.
[21] Kanigel (1991), p90.
[22] Kanigel (1991), p28.
[23] Kanigel (1991), p45.
[24] Kanigel (1991), p47.
[25] Kanigel (1991), pp48–49.
[26] Kanigel (1991), pp55–56.
[27] Kanigel (1991), p71.
[28] Kanigel (1991), p72.
[29] Ramanujan, Srinivasa (1968). P. K. Srinivasan. ed. Ramanujan Memorial Number: Letters and Reminiscences. Madras: Muthialpet High
School. Vol. 1, p100.
[30] Kanigel (1991), p73.
[31] Kanigel (1991), pp74–75.
[32] Ranganathan, S. R. (1967). Ramanujan: The Man and the Mathematician. Bombay: Asia Publishing House. pp. 23.
[33] Srinivasan (1968), Vol. 1, p99.
[34] Kanigel (1991), p77.
[35] Srinivasan (1968), Vol. 1, p129.
[36] Srinivasan (1968), Vol. 1, p86.
[37] Neville, Eric Harold (January 1921). "The Late Srinivasa Ramanujan". Nature 106 (2673): 661–662. doi:10.1038/106661b0.
[38] Ranganathan (1967), p24.
[39] Kanigel (1991), p80.
[40] Kanigel (1991), p86.
[41] Kanigel (1991), p87.
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[44] Seshu Iyer, P. V. (June 1920). "The Late Mr. S. Ramanujan, B.A., F.R.S.". Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society 12 (3): 83.
[45] Neville (March 1942), p292.
[46] Srinivasan (1968), p176.
[47] Srinivasan (1968), p31.
[48] Srinivasan (1968), p49.
[49] Kanigel (1991), p96.
[50] Kanigel (1991), p105.
[51] Letter from M. J. M. Hill to a C. L. T. Griffith (a former student who sent the request to Hill on Ramanujan's behalf), 28 November 1912.
[52] Kanigel (1991), p106.
[53] Kanigel (1991), pp170–171.
[54] Snow, C. P. (1966). Variety of Men. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 30–31.
[55] Hardy, G. H.; Rankin, Robert A. (June 1920). "Obituary, S. Ramanujan". Nature (Mathematical Association of America) 105 (7): 494.
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[57] Kanigel (1991), p168.
[58] Hardy (June 1920), pp494–495.
[59] Neville, Eric Harold (March 1942). "Srinivasa Ramanujan". Nature 149 (3776): 293. doi:10.1038/149292a0.
[60] Letter, Hardy to Ramanujan, 8 February 1913.
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[61] Letter, Ramanujan to Hardy, 22 January 1914.

[62] Kanigel (1991), p185.
[63] Letter, Ramanujan to Hardy, 27 February 1913, Cambridge University Library.
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[67] Ranganathan (1967), p12.
[68] Kanigel (1991), p183.
[69] Kanigel (1991), p184.
[70] Kanigel (1991), p196.
[71] Kanigel (1991), p202.
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Selected publications by Ramanujan

• Srinivasa Ramanujan, G. H. Hardy, P. V. Seshu Aiyar, B. M. Wilson, Bruce C. Berndt (2000). Collected Papers
of Srinivasa Ramanujan. AMS. ISBN 0-8218-2076-1.
This book was originally published in 1927 after Ramanujan's death. It contains the 37 papers published in
professional journals by Ramanujan during his lifetime. The third re-print contains additional commentary by
Bruce C. Berndt.
• S. Ramanujan (1957). Notebooks (2 Volumes). Bombay: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
These books contain photo copies of the original notebooks as written by Ramanujan.
• S. Ramanujan (1988). The Lost Notebook and Other Unpublished Papers. New Delhi: Narosa.
ISBN 354018726X.
This book contains photo copies of the pages of the "Lost Notebook".
• Problems posed by Ramanujan (http://www.imsc.res.in/~rao/ramanujan/collectedpapers/question/qJIMS.
htm), Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society.
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Selected publications about Ramanujan and his work

• Berndt, Bruce C. " An Overview of Ramanujan's Notebooks (http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~berndt/articles/
aachen.pdf)." Charlemagne and His Heritage: 1200 Years of Civilization and Science in Europe. Ed. P. L.
Butzer, W. Oberschelp, and H. Th. Jongen. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1998. 119–146.
• Berndt, Bruce C., and George E. Andrews. Ramanujan's Lost Notebook, Part I. New York: Springer, 2005. ISBN
0-387-25529-X.
• Berndt, Bruce C., and George E. Andrews. Ramanujan's Lost Notebook, Part II. New York: Springer, 2008.
ISBN 978-0-387-77765-8
• Berndt, Bruce C., and Robert A. Rankin. Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary. Vol. 9. Providence, Rhode Island:
American Mathematical Society, 1995. ISBN 0-8218-0287-9.
• Berndt, Bruce C., and Robert A. Rankin. Ramanujan: Essays and Surveys. Vol. 22. Providence, Rhode Island:
American Mathematical Society, 2001. ISBN 0-8218-2624-7.
• Berndt, Bruce C. Number Theory in the Spirit of Ramanujan. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical
Society, 2006. ISBN 0-8218-4178-5.
• Berndt, Bruce C. Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part I. New York: Springer, 1985. ISBN 0-387-96110-0.
• Berndt, Bruce C. Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part II. New York: Springer, 1999. ISBN 0-387-96794-X.
• Berndt, Bruce C. Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part III. New York: Springer, 2004. ISBN 0-387-97503-9.
• Berndt, Bruce C. Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part IV. New York: Springer, 1993. ISBN 0-387-94109-6.
• Berndt, Bruce C. Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part V. New York: Springer, 2005. ISBN 0-387-94941-0.
• Hardy, G. H. Ramanujan. New York, Chelsea Pub. Co., 1978. ISBN 0-8284-0136-5
• Hardy, G. H. Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work. Providence, Rhode
Island: American Mathematical Society, 1999. ISBN 0-8218-2023-0.
• Henderson, Harry. Modern Mathematicians. New York: Facts on File Inc., 1995. ISBN 0-8160-3235-1.
• Kanigel, Robert. The Man Who Knew Infinity: a Life of the Genius Ramanujan. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1991. ISBN 0-684-19259-4.
• Kolata, Gina. "Remembering a 'Magical Genius'", Science, New Series, Vol. 236, No. 4808 (Jun. 19, 1987),
pp. 1519–1521, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Leavitt, David. The Indian Clerk. London: Bloomsbury, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7475-9370-6 (paperback).
• Narlikar, Jayant V. Scientific Edge: the Indian Scientist From Vedic to Modern Times. New Delhi, India: Penguin
Books, 2003. ISBN 0-14-303028-0.
• T.M.Sankaran. "Srinivasa Ramanujan- Ganitha lokathile Mahaprathibha", (in Malayalam), 2005, Kerala Sastra
Sahithya Parishath, Kochi.

External links

Media links
• Biswas, Soutik (16 March 2006). "Film to celebrate mathematics genius" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
south_asia/4811920.stm). BBC. Retrieved 24 August 2006.
• Feature Film on Mathematics Genius Ramanujan by Dev Benegal and Stephen Fry (http://devbenegal.com/
2006/03/15/feature-film-on-math-genius-ramanujan/)
• BBC radio programme about Ramanujan – episode 5 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/further5.shtml)
• A biographical song about Ramanujan's life (http://www.archive.org/details/Ramanujan)
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Biographical links
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Srinivasa Ramanujan" (http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Biographies/Ramanujan.html), MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
• Weisstein, Eric W., Ramanujan, Srinivasa (1887–1920) (http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/
Ramanujan.html) from ScienceWorld.
• Biography of this mathematical genius at World of Biography (http://www.worldofbiography.com/9094-S.
Ramanujan/)
• Srinivasan Ramanujan in One Hundred Tamils of 20th Century (http://www.tamilnation.org/hundredtamils/
ramanujan.htm)
• Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (http://intranet.woodvillehs.sa.edu.au/pages/resources/maths/History/
Rmnjn.htm)
• A short biography of Ramanujan (http://www.usna.edu/Users/math/meh/ramanujan.html)
• "A passion for numbers" (http://www.hinduonnet.com/folio/fo0102/01020480.htm)

Other links
• A Study Group For Mathematics: Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/
srinivasaramanujan/)
• The Ramanujan Journal (http://www.math.ufl.edu/~frank/ramanujan.html) – An international journal
devoted to Ramanujan
• International Math Union Prizes (http://www.mathunion.org/General/Prizes/), including a Ramanujan Prize.
• Complicite Production of "A Disappearing Number" (http://www.complicite.org/productions/detail.
html?id=43) – a play about Ramanujan's work
• Hindu.com: Norwegian and Indian mathematical geniuses (http://www.hindu.com/mag/2004/12/26/stories/
2004122600610400.htm), RAMANUJAN — Essays and Surveys (http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/br/2003/
08/26/stories/2003082600120300.htm), Ramanujan's growing influence (http://www.hindu.com/2003/12/
22/stories/2003122204061100.htm), Ramanujan's mentor (http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2002/12/
22/stories/2002122200040400.htm)
• Hindu.com: The sponsor of Ramanujan (http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article884010.
ece)
• Bruce C. Berndt; Robert A. Rankin (2000). "The Books Studied by Ramanujan in India". American Mathematical
Monthly (Mathematical Association of America) 107 (7): 595–601. doi:10.2307/2589114. JSTOR 2589114.
MR1786233.
• "Ramanujan's mock theta function puzzle solved" (http://www.maa.org/news/030807puzzlesolved.html)
• Ramanujan's papers and notebooks (http://www.imsc.res.in/~rao/ramanujan/contentindex.html)
• Sample page from the second notebook (http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/papers/borwein/paper/html/
local/ramnotebook.html)
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