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The Famous Indian Mathematician is Srinivasa Ramanujan was born in South India in 1887.
He was the son of a poor Brahmin family.
Three of his brothers died as children.
And, In 1903 he read a book that compiled five thousand theorems but without proof.
That was his training. It is that he recited to his companions the decimal places of the number pi.
In high school, he made an impressive discovery about trigonometry.
He was only talking about math.
They threw him out of school.
They took out scholarships. He had no titles.
He spent five years in Cambridge with Hardy, and his contribution to “partitions” was brilliant.
And, The First War aggravated his adaptation to customs as opposed to his.
He had tuberculosis.
He returned to his country and died at 32.
What are the Formulas and Theorems of Famous Indian Mathematician?
The formulas and theorems contained in the text sent by Ramanujan were convoluted, complicated, without much information.
It is so captivated and invited Ramanujan to England to work with him.
Srinivasa Ramanujan worked mainly in number theory, finding identities related to the number pi and the number e or the prime numbers.
Whereas, The number 1729, known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number, fulfills the property discussed by Ramanujan, since:
I don’t even want to imagine the face Hardy must have made at that moment.
And, This property inspired the definition of the Taxicab numbers, ( A011541 in the OEIS).
All n positive integers symbolize the smallest positive integer that can be writing as the sum of two cubes in n different ways.
And aslso, There are many other formulas, identities, functions, constants, and guesses related to Ramanujan. I invite you to explore the links at the end of the article to discover them.
What are the Awards rewarded to Famous Indian Mathematician?
There are two significant awards in mathematics internationally in honor of Ramanujan
1. The International Center for Theoretic Physics (ICTP) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU)
The Ramanujan Prize, awarded by the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
He was awarded annually since 2005 to mathematicians from developing countries who have excelled in their research and who are at most 45 years old on 31 December of the year in question.
2. The Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA)
The SASTRA Ramanujan Award, awarded by the Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA).
Since 2005, to mathematicians aged 32 or older who have made significant and innovative contributions to a field related to the studies carried out by themselves Ramanujan.
And there was (it seems that it stopped a while ago) a mathematics magazine dedicated to the areas of influence of Ramanujan’s work, called The Ramanujan Journal.
What are the Inventories of our Famous Indian Mathematician?
1. The zero
It is surprising to think that before the Indians invented it, there was no zero.
For the ancient Greeks, it just didn’t exist.
Among the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and Chinese, the zero had been in use, but as a placeholder, space.
The fight that 0 fought to be accept as a number
And also, The Indians transformed zero into a number that made sense in its own right, a number for calculation, for research.
This brilliant conceptual leap revolutionized mathematics.
From that point on, with just ten digits, zero through nine, it was suddenly possible to capture astronomically large numbers in an incredibly efficient way.
2. From 0 to infinity
In the 7th century, the bright Indian Mathematician Brahmagupta demonstrated some of the essential properties of zero.
Brahmagupta’s rules of zero calculus are in schools around the world to this day.
But also Brahmagupta ran into a problem when he tried to divide one by zero.
3. A number multiplied by zero is equal to one
The solution would require a new mathematical concept that of infinity.
That alone would make sense of the division by zero, and the breakthrough is creating by a 12th-century Indian mathematician named Bhaskara II.
The slighter you cut the pieces, the more details you will have, so when you get to the smallest (zero), you will have infinite pieces
But also, the Indians would go even further in their calculations with zero.
4. X’s and Y’s
The abstract approach of the Indians to mathematics soon revealed a new aspect of the problem of how to solve quadratic equations.
That is, equations that include numbers to the power of two.
Brahmagupta’s sympathetic of negative numbers allowed him to see that quadratic equations always have two solutions, one of which could be damaging.
Brahmagupta went even further, solving quadratic equations with two unknowns.
Brahmagupta didn’t just find abstract ways to solve equations. Amazingly, he also developed a new mathematical language to express that abstraction.
Experimenting with ways to write his equations, he used the initials of the names of different colors to represent unknowns.
And, That is what led to the X’s and Y’s that we use in math today.
5. Mathematics in space
Using trigonometry, the Indian astronomers could calculate the relative distance between the Earth and the Moon and the Earth and the Sun.
And also, You can only do the calculation when the Moon is half full because it is directly opposite the Sun.
At that time, the Sun, Moon, and Earth create a right triangle.
The ancient Indians were able to measure that the Sun’s angle and their observatory was one-seventh of a degree.
The sinusoidal function of a seventh degree gives the ratio of 400: 1.
That means that the Sun is 400 times further from Earth than the Moon.
It is how Indian mathematicians could explore the Solar System without having to leave the Earth’s surface.