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6 unusual facts about Srinivasa Ramanujan


Analytic combinatorics

Many precursors of these ideas can be listed, among which Leonhard Euler, Arthur Cayley, Srinivasa Ramanujan, George Pólya, Donald Knuth.

Ashutosh Mukherjee

He was one of the first persons to recognize the work of Srinivasa Ramanujan.

E. W. Middlemast

On 21 September 1911, Middlemast wrote the following letter of recommendation for a then unknown youth named Srinivasa Ramanujan, who was applying for the position of Clerk at the Madras Port Trust.

Simon McBurney

A Disappearing Number was a devised piece conceived and directed by McBurney, taking as its inspiration the story of the collaboration between two of the 13th century's most remarkable pure mathematicians, the Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, and Cambridge don G.H. Hardy.

The Indian Clerk

The novel is inspired by the career of the self-taught mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, as seen mainly through the eyes of his mentor and collaborator G.H. Hardy, a British mathematics professor at Cambridge University.

Time Breakers

As the story arc proceeds, the Breakers seek to influence various incidents in human history such as the collaboration in Cambridge in the early part of the twentieth century between Srinivasa Ramanujan and GH Hardy and to keep one step ahead of the Knowers.



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