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 analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable.
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- Born in
- Erode
- Educated at
- University of CambridgeTrinity CollegePachaiyappa's CollegeGovernment Arts College, KumbakonamTown Higher Secondary School
- Awards
- 🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society🏆 Fellow of Trinity College
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 G.H. Hardy
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1887
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Birth1920
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