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Srinivasa Ramanujan

1887 - 1920

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Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician. Often regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, though he had 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. Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation. According to Hans Eysenck, "he tried to interest the leading professional mathematicians in his work, but failed for the most part. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Srinivasa Ramanujan is the 28th most popular mathematician (down from 18th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from India (down from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Mathematician.

Srinivasa Ramanujan is most famous for his contributions to number theory and infinite series.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Srinivasa Ramanujan ranks 28 out of 1,004. Before him are David Hilbert, Joseph Fourier, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Évariste Galois, Hero of Alexandria, and John von Neumann. After him are Diophantus, Gerolamo Cardano, François Viète, Kurt Gödel, Luca Pacioli, and Niels Henrik Abel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Srinivasa Ramanujan ranks 10. Before him are Bernard Montgomery, Marc Chagall, Charles I of Austria, Erich von Manstein, Padre Pio, and Marcel Duchamp. After him are Ernst Röhm, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Vidkun Quisling, Arthur Rubinstein, and Wilhelm Canaris. Among people deceased in 1920, Srinivasa Ramanujan ranks 4. Before him are Max Weber, Amedeo Modigliani, and Wilhelm Wundt. After him are Peter Carl Fabergé, Eugénie de Montijo, Alexander of Greece, Max Bruch, Robert Peary, Alexander Kolchak, Anders Zorn, and Princess Margaret of Connaught.

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In India

Among people born in India, Srinivasa Ramanujan ranks 22 out of 1,861. Before him are Amitabh Bachchan (1942), Droupadi Murmu (1958), Nagarjuna (150), Patanjali (-200), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), and Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775). After him are Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Shah Rukh Khan (1965), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), Razia Sultana (1205), and Jawaharlal Nehru (1889).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, Srinivasa Ramanujan ranks 1. After him are Brahmagupta (598), Bhāskara II (1114), Augustus De Morgan (1806), Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), S. R. Ranganathan (1892), Bhāskara I (600), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Jai Singh II (1688), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940).

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