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Srinivasa Ramanujan
Self-taught Indian genius; 3,900 mathematical results; worked with Hardy at Cambridge; died aged 32
India 🇮🇳 1913 Famous Mathematicians
Key Facts
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1729 (Hardy-Ramanujan number): the smallest number expressible as sum of two cubes in two ways (1³+12³=9³+10³)
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Contributed to: infinite series, continued fractions, partition numbers, mock theta functions
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Died 1920 aged 32; over 3,000 of his theorems have since been proved; some led to string theory in physics
🔢 Did you know? Ramanujan had only 6 years of formal maths education but independently rediscovered/discovered theorems that took Western mathematicians centuries to prove
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Famous Mathematicians
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🇮🇳 India
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1913
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Self-taught Indian genius