Srinivasa Ramanujan’s birth anniversary on 22 December is celebrated as National Mathematics Day to honour the achievements of the legendary mathematician.
Seshadri was a leader in algebraic geometry, and was associated with a number of top mathematical institutes around the world, including University of Paris, Harvard University.
UGC lists learning outcomes for various subjects, wants institutions to formulate syllabus accordingly. Revised syllabus likely to be in place from 2020-21.
Redesigned curriculum, part of the draft national education policy, will include workbooks, practicals and a 3-month preparation module before students enter Class 1.
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to the best sources to read them. It's your fix to stay on top of the latest in science.
While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.
In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.
The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.
all these People,we say them geniuses are sufferers.please first people are not able to understand their thoughts BUT after they are gone….unki tarif karenge. naam se memorials, trust bana denge…jab vo the to jeene nahi dete baad mein jo bhi karo vo dekhne nahi aane vale…take ramanujanSIR or prem chandji..or ghalib…orany great personality..disgusting at our part
It’s important to add a w keep details here. Ramanujan’s passion for Mathematics didn’t recede a bit as long as he was conscious and had energy left in him. The notebook in which he wrote in his last year while on his death bed is now famously known as the “Lost note book”, which was eventually found out by a professor in a British Public library. Ramanujan was way too brilliant and world do many steps in his head and write only interim steps or simply the conclusion, so today’s mathematicians are struggling to prove his theorems and are in complete awe as to how he could have even found them in the first place. The Lost notebook has crucially helped to prove the existence of black holes. Notably, black holes were not known to have existed in Ramanujan’s time and was a subsequent discovery.
An American professor of repute who specialized in Ramanujan’s had said even providing proof for one page that Ramanujan wrote in his dying yearb was enough to earn a Ph.D in a leading American University today.
Ramanujan’s Mother was a great devotee of Namakkal Thayar and Ramanujan was a front y spiritual man.
A note of correction in this report m Ramanujan didn’t die in Kumbakonam, he doesn’t just last days at a house in Harrington Road in Chennai.
It’s said that Hardy visited the sick Ramanujan in hospital in London, and trying to make conversation remarked that his cab number was 1729. “Not very interesting”, Hardy said. “No! that is the smallest positive integer expressible as the sum of two cubes two different ways!” Of course I had to check – it’s 1^3 + 12^3 = 9^3 + 10^3. The hard part was proving it was the smallest (it is).
It wasn’t malnutrition that Ramanujan suffered from. It was cultural isolation and home sickness. It was the feeling that being the genius he was, he had to take permissions for everything – whether it was moving around in his dhoti at the university or or the use of unconventional ways of proving something. A lesser qualified mathematician from India has to write ab almost arrogant letter of recommendation to tujhe queen to allow Ramanujan to travel to Trinity. His research along with his letter where thrown into the dustbin before the professors at Trinity realised his genius. If my memory serves me well, I think it was Hardy who promised to himself that he will never see his own face in there mirror as he couldn’t confront the guilt of having driven such a genius to becoming suicidal! Why doesn’t this article cover about such a huge fact of his life? His attempts to commit suicide? It creates a negative image about him, is it? Wo shouldn’t people learn that of they are geniuses, they better do whatever they can don here itself and be a lesser hero of India than gradually become suicidal and lonely somewhere else? Truth, spoken out without any hesitation is the best tribute you could give to a legend such as Ramanujan. That’s he knew all his life, after all. Truth. Numbers couldn’t lie. Math cannot lie. Happy birthday Dear Ramanujan.
Nice article. Wanted to point out a small error – Carr’s book did not contain proofs. It only contained theorems. This is said to have had a profound impact on Ramanujan, as seen from his style of working later on, when he wrote down plenty of theorems with no proofs.
all these People,we say them geniuses are sufferers.please first people are not able to understand their thoughts BUT after they are gone….unki tarif karenge. naam se memorials, trust bana denge…jab vo the to jeene nahi dete baad mein jo bhi karo vo dekhne nahi aane vale…take ramanujanSIR or prem chandji..or ghalib…orany great personality..disgusting at our part
It’s important to add a w keep details here. Ramanujan’s passion for Mathematics didn’t recede a bit as long as he was conscious and had energy left in him. The notebook in which he wrote in his last year while on his death bed is now famously known as the “Lost note book”, which was eventually found out by a professor in a British Public library. Ramanujan was way too brilliant and world do many steps in his head and write only interim steps or simply the conclusion, so today’s mathematicians are struggling to prove his theorems and are in complete awe as to how he could have even found them in the first place. The Lost notebook has crucially helped to prove the existence of black holes. Notably, black holes were not known to have existed in Ramanujan’s time and was a subsequent discovery.
An American professor of repute who specialized in Ramanujan’s had said even providing proof for one page that Ramanujan wrote in his dying yearb was enough to earn a Ph.D in a leading American University today.
Ramanujan’s Mother was a great devotee of Namakkal Thayar and Ramanujan was a front y spiritual man.
A note of correction in this report m Ramanujan didn’t die in Kumbakonam, he doesn’t just last days at a house in Harrington Road in Chennai.
It’s said that Hardy visited the sick Ramanujan in hospital in London, and trying to make conversation remarked that his cab number was 1729. “Not very interesting”, Hardy said. “No! that is the smallest positive integer expressible as the sum of two cubes two different ways!” Of course I had to check – it’s 1^3 + 12^3 = 9^3 + 10^3. The hard part was proving it was the smallest (it is).
It wasn’t malnutrition that Ramanujan suffered from. It was cultural isolation and home sickness. It was the feeling that being the genius he was, he had to take permissions for everything – whether it was moving around in his dhoti at the university or or the use of unconventional ways of proving something. A lesser qualified mathematician from India has to write ab almost arrogant letter of recommendation to tujhe queen to allow Ramanujan to travel to Trinity. His research along with his letter where thrown into the dustbin before the professors at Trinity realised his genius. If my memory serves me well, I think it was Hardy who promised to himself that he will never see his own face in there mirror as he couldn’t confront the guilt of having driven such a genius to becoming suicidal! Why doesn’t this article cover about such a huge fact of his life? His attempts to commit suicide? It creates a negative image about him, is it? Wo shouldn’t people learn that of they are geniuses, they better do whatever they can don here itself and be a lesser hero of India than gradually become suicidal and lonely somewhere else? Truth, spoken out without any hesitation is the best tribute you could give to a legend such as Ramanujan. That’s he knew all his life, after all. Truth. Numbers couldn’t lie. Math cannot lie. Happy birthday Dear Ramanujan.
Nice article. Wanted to point out a small error – Carr’s book did not contain proofs. It only contained theorems. This is said to have had a profound impact on Ramanujan, as seen from his style of working later on, when he wrote down plenty of theorems with no proofs.