Srinivasa Ramanujan Essays

  • Srinivasa Ramanujan

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    Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of India's greatest mathematical geniuses. He made contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series. Ramanujan was born in his grandmother's house in Erode on December 22, 1887. When Ramanujan was a year old his mother took him to the town of Kumbakonam, near Madras. His father worked in Kumbakonam as a clerk in a cloth merchant's shop. When he was five years old, Ramanujan went to the primary

  • Analysis Of 'The Man Who Knew Infinity'

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    remember reays ago hearing about an Indian math genius who died at a young age. His death was talked about as a major set back in terms of scientific progress. We 're talking Einstein if he died before he discovered the Theory of Relativity. Srinivasa Ramanujan was an impovershed genius in India. He had no formal education in mathematics, yet he came up with solutions to huge mathematical problems in his head. Since he had to education, he couldn 't prove his work. Do you remember in Math class when

  • Srinivasa Ramanujan As A Hero's Hero

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    Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of the greatest mathematicians in India. With no formal training in pure mathematics, he made significant contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and made an outbreak in continued fractions, elliptical functions and infinite series. He is deeply religious and credits his mathematical abilities to divinity (“Srinivasa Ramanujan”, n.d., para 1). He once told his friend, “An equation for me has no meaning, unless it expresses a thought of God” (Robert, 1991). Starting

  • Watching A Disappearing Number in Theater

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    center stage, which allowed actors to enter and exit the stage. Although it didn't fit at first, it became effective as the play progressed and the acting style became more non-naturalistic. Screens were also used to alternate between scenes of Ramanujan in India and G.H Hardy in Cambridge. The use of imagery was key in the final scene, where Al lets go of the past and moves on. The sand poured out by each character symbolized the passing of time and connected the past and present, which was the

  • Nissim Ezekiel and A.K. Ramanujan

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    Nissim Ezekiel (December 24 1924 - January 9, 2004 ) was a poet, playwright and art critic. He was considered the foremost Indian writer in English English-language> of his time. Contents 1 Early life > 2 Career > 3 Books by Nissim Ezekiel > 4 Some of his well-known poems > Early life Ezekiel was born in Bombay (now Mumbai Mumbai). Ezekiel’s father was a botany professor and his mother, principal of her own school. He belonged to Mumbai's small 'Bene Israel' Jewish community. In 1947, Ezekiel did

  • Pi

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    independently confirmed or improved the number of decimal places. By the end of the 17th century in Europe, new methods of mathematical analysis provided various ways of calculating pi. Early in the 20th century the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan developed ways of calculating pi that were so efficient that they have been incorporated into computer algorithms, permitting expressions of pi in millions of digits.

  • The Plausibility of Artificial Intelligence

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    “Connectionism” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 19 Aug. 2002. < http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/> (visited 06 Dec. 2002) [11] Garson, James. “Connectionism” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [12] Srinivasa Rao, K. Srinivasa Ramanujan : a mathematical (East West Books, c1998) [13] Miller, Leon K., Musical savants : exceptional skill in the mentally retarded. (Hillsdale, N.J : L. Erlbaum, 1989.)

  • Pi Theory

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    transcendental is not commonly known even though it is not difficult. More Formulas for Pi and the Surge of Computers Allowment In the 20th century various mathematicians had come up with new ways to represent pi. One of India’s greatest mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan proved the following representation of pi

  • Difference Between Education In Canada And India

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    Multiple differences exist between the educational systems in Canada and India. In Canada, education is like an open topic with a rising debate that education can provide students with a career, but at the same time students can find success without it. However, in India education is not an open topic as many students must go to school as the country takes too much value into it as students can only get a well-paying job with a degree. This is what sets the two countries apart in their educational