Posted by SIDHARTH on Jan. 21, 2013, 8:51 p.m.
Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS (
pronunciation (help·info)) (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions.
Living in India with no access to the larger mathematical community,
which was centered in Europe at the time, Ramanujan developed his own
mathematical research in isolation. As a result, he sometimes
rediscovered known theorems in addition to producing new work. Ramanujan
was said to be a natural genius by the English mathematician G. H. Hardy, in the same league as mathematicians such as Euler and Gauss.[1] He died at the age of 32.