Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar was an Indian mathematician who worked during the early 20th century. Despite having almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical... Wikipedia

• Born:  Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar, December 22, 1887, Erode, Madras Presidency, British India (now in Tamil Nadu, India)
• Age at death:  32 years
• Died:  April 26, 1920, Kumbakonam, Tanjore District, Madras Presidency, British India (now Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India)
• Citizenship:  British Indian
• Fields:  Mathematics
• Institutions:  University of Cambridge
• Education:  Government Arts College, Pachaiyappa's College, Trinity College, Cambridge (BA)
• Thesis:  Highly Composite Numbers (1916)
• Academic advisors:  G. H. Hardy, J. E. Littlewood
• Known for:  Ramanujan's sum, Landau–Ramanujan constant, Mock theta functions, Ramanujan's congruences, Ramanujan conjecture, Ramanujan prime, Ramanujan–Soldner constant, Ramanujan theta function, Rogers–Ramanujan identities, Ramanujan's master theorem, Hardy–Ramanujan asymptotic formula, Ramanujan–Sato series
• Notable awards:  Fellow of the Royal Society (1918)
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo