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Oberwolfach Photo Collection Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of the world’s greatest mathematicians. His life story, with its humble and sometimes difficult beginnings, is as interesting in its own right as his astonishing work was. • The book that started it all A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics (1880, revised in 1886), by George Shoobridge Carr. The book consists solely of thousands of • Early failures Despite being a prodigy in mathematics, Ramanujan did not have an auspicious start to his career. He obtained a scholarship to college in 1904, but he quickly lost it by failing in nonmathematical subjects. Another try at college in • Go west, young man Ramanujan rose in prominence among Indian mathematicians, but his colleagues felt that he needed to go to the West to come into contact with the forefront of mathematical research. Ramanujan started writing letters of introduction to professors at the • Get pi fast In his notebooks, Ramanujan wrote down 17 ways to represent 1/ • Taxicab numbers In a famous anecdote, Hardy took a cab to visit Ramanujan. When he got there, he told Ramanujan that the cab’s number, 1729, was “rather a dull one.” Ramanujan said, “No, it is a very interesting number. It is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways. That is, 1729 = 1^3 + 12^3 = 9^3 + 10^3. This number is now called the Hardy-Ramanujan number, and the smallest numbers that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in n dif...

Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 - 1920). This is what "Ramanujan is a role model for the possible," says When Ramanujan arrived in England he worked with Hardy on a range of mathematical topics. He arrived with little formal training, and had devised his very own way of writing mathematics that other mathematicians had never seen before. The certificate of Ramanujan's nomination to become a Fellow of the Royal Society. Click "Ramanujan didn't use the notation that everyone else in the world used," says Ono. "When he arrived here in England he knew nothing of modern mathematics. He made mistakes all the time." Ramanujan quickly learned a great deal of formal mathematics at Cambridge and went from an amateur to writing world class mathematics papers. "Very quickly, within the span of a year or two, he was formally trained. He was very smart so he could catch up quickly. The papers he wrote here [in England], by every professional standard, were world class papers. So that is also a testament to how gifted he was." One of these papers, written with Hardy, astonished the mathematical community as it gave a way to reliably calculate numbers that had eluded mathematicians for centuries – partition numbers. This paper was one of those quoted in his nomination to be elected as a Fellow of the Partition numbers The concept of partition numbers is quite straightforward. You can write any natural number as a sum of natural numbers. For example can be written as a sum in three different way...