Srinivasa Ramanujan

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human mathematician number theorist

Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematical prodigy whose groundbreaking, largely self-taught contributions to number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions profoundly influenced modern mathematics.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human → mathematician → number theorist →
causeOfDeath	malnutrition → tuberculosis →
collaboratedWith	G. H. Hardy →
countryOfCitizenship	India →
dateOfBirth	1887-12-22 →
dateOfDeath	1920-04-26 →
educatedAt	Government Arts College Kumbakonam → Pachaiyappa’s College →
ethnicGroup	Tamil →
familyName	Ramanujan →
fieldOfWork	continued fractions → infinite series → mathematics → modular forms → number theory → partition theory → q-series → special functions →
fullName	Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar →
givenName	Srinivasa →
hasAcademicAdvisor	G. H. Hardy →
honoredIn	National Mathematics Day (India) →
influenced	analytic number theory → modern number theory → theory of modular forms →
knownFor	intuitive approach to mathematics → self-taught mathematical genius →
memberOf	Royal Society →
nativeLanguage	Tamil →
notableStudentOrMentor	G. H. Hardy →
notableWork	Ramanujan prime → Ramanujan tau function → Ramanujan theta function → Ramanujan–Nagell equation → Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture → Ramanujan’s congruences for partition function → Ramanujan’s lost notebook → Ramanujan’s sum → Rogers–Ramanujan identities → formulae for 1/pi → highly composite numbers → mock theta functions → partition function asymptotics →
placeOfBirth	British India → Erode → Madras Presidency →
placeOfDeath	British India → Kumbakonam → Madras Presidency →
positionHeld	Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge → Fellow of the Royal Society →
religion	Hinduism →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Janaki Ammal →
subjectOf	biography "The Man Who Knew Infinity" by Robert Kanigel → film "The Man Who Knew Infinity" →
workLocation	Cambridge → Madras →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ramanujan partition congruences →	discoverer
G. H. Hardy →	doctoralStudent
Srinivasa Ramanujan ("Ramanujan") →	familyName
Srinivasa Ramanujan ("Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar") →	fullName
Srinivasa Ramanujan ("Srinivasa") →	givenName
G. H. Hardy →	influenced
Atle Selberg →	influencedBy
Trinity College, Cambridge →	notableAlumnus