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Srínivásza Rámánudzsan Ijengar indiai matematikus zseni. Magasabb tanulmányok folytatása nélkül jelentős felfedezéseket tett a matematikában, különösen a számelméletben, a kombinatorikus számelméletben és a végtelen sorokkal kapcsolatban.

Rámánudzsan az indiai Tamilnádu állambéli Irodu nevű kisvárosban született, és ugyanott nevelkedett fel. Srínivásza az apja után kapott neve volt, de ezt még hivatalos iratokon is ritkán használta, vagy „S.” betűvel rövidítette. Az Ijengár dél-indiai brahmin kaszt után kapott neve volt, amihez családja tartozott. A Rámánudzsan nevet egy i. sz. 1100 körül élt szent ember, Rámánudzsa után kapta. A Rámánudzsan név jelentése: „Ráma fiatalabb testvére”. Rámánudzsan maga Ramanujan alakban írta a nevét, amikor latin betűket használt. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. december 1887 – 26. április 1920
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Srínivásza Rámánudzsan: Idézetek angolul

“Sir, an equation has no meaning for me unless it expresses a thought of GOD.”

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Srinivasa Ramanujan

Statement to a friend, quoted in Ramanujan, the Man and the Mathematician (1967) by Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, p. 88
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An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.
Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html

“I beg to introduce myself to you as a clerk in the Accounts Department of the Port Trust Office at Madras… I have no University education but I have undergone the ordinary school course. After leaving school I have been employing the spare time at my disposal to work at Mathematics. I have not trodden through the conventional regular course which is followed in a University course, but I am striking out a new path for myself. I have made a special investigation of divergent series in general and the results I get are termed by the local mathematicians as "startling"…. Very recently I came across a tract published by you styled Orders of Infinity in page 36 of which I find a statement that no definite expression has been as yet found for the number of prime numbers less than any given number. I have found an expression which very nearly approximates to the real result, the error being negligible. I would request that you go through the enclosed papers. Being poor, if you are convinced that there is anything of value I would like to have my theorems published. I have not given the actual investigations nor the expressons that I get but I have indicated the lines on which I proceed. Being inexperienced I would very highly value any advice you give me. Requesting to be excused for the trouble I give you. I remain, Dear Sir, Yours truly…”

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Srinivasa Ramanujan

Letter to G. H. Hardy, (16 January 1913), published in Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary American Mathematical Society (1995) History of Mathematics, Vol. 9