Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work by G. H. Hardy

Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work



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Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on subjects suggested by his life and work, GH Hardy, Chelsea, New York, 1940. Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work. Formal education At the age of 12, Ramanujan is said to have worked out the properties of arithmetical, geometrical and harmonic progressions. Hardy, Ramanujan: twelve lectures on subjects suggested by his life and work., Chelsea Publishing. This year is the 125th birth anniversary of the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The nation is celebrating it as the Year of Mathematics. I read Robert Kanigel's "The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan" in '93, two years after it came out. Here are a couple of paragraphs, from immediately after G.H. Resonance 1996/ Reflections Around the Ramanujan Centenary, Atle Selberg. In these lectures, I will present an account of his romantic life, provide a few glimpses into his mathematics and relate the increasing interest in his work and its relevance even today. Hardy receives his first letter from Ramanujan in Madras, with several pages of groundbreaking mathematical proofs attached: At first glance, the complex array of numbers, letters, and symbols suggests a passing familiarity with, if not a fluency in, the language of his discipline. Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on the Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work by G. Once a senior Partly due to his pre-occupation with researches into mathematics, he neglected the study of other subjects. Hardy, Chelsea Publishing Co, New York, 1940. 3 (Lecture I) of the collection "Ramanujan: twelve lectures on subjects suggested by his life and work". The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by R.