NUMBERS AND SEQUENCES Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematical genius who was born in Erode in a poor family. He was a child prodigy and made calculations at lightning speed. He produced thousands of precious formulae, jotting them on his three notebooks which are now preserved at the University of Madras. With the help of several notable men, he became the first research scholar in the mathematics department of University of Madras.
Subsequently, he went to England and collaborated with G.H. Hardy for five years from to . He possessed great interest in observing the pattern of numbers and produced several new results in Analytic Number Theory. His mathematical ability was compared to Euler and Jacobi, the two great mathematicians of the past Era.
Ramanujan wrote thirty important research papers and wrote seven research papers in collaboration with G.H. Hardy. He has produced formulas and theorems in very short span of years lifetime. He was awarded B.A.
degree for research in by Cambridge University which is equivalent to modern day Ph.D. Degree. For his contributions to number theory, he was made Fellow of Royal Society (F.R.S.) in . His works continue to delight mathematicians worldwide even today.
Many surprising connections are made in the last few years of work made by Ramanujan nearly a century ago. “I know numbers are beautiful, if they aren’t beautiful, nothing is” - Paul Erdos Srinivasa Ramanujan ( - ) Numbers and Sequences