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    Posted 29 Apr 2024

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    • Great Mathematician S Ramanujan was remembered on his death anniversary.

     

    • About S Ramanujan (1887 - 1920)
      • Born in Erode (Tamil Nadu)
      • He never received any formal mathematics training and most of his mathematical discoveries were based on intuition.

     

    • Key Contributions
      • Ramanujan's contributions to mathematical fields include complex analysis, number theory, infinite series, continued fractions, game theory, etc.
      • 1729 is known as the Ramanujan number.
        • It is the smallest number that could be expressed as sum of two cubes in two different ways, i.e, 103+93 and 13+ 123.

     

    • National Mathematics Day (December 22) is observed on his birth anniversary.

     

    • Values: Scientism, Perseverance and Dedication, Curiosity, etc.

     

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