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Ramanujan

American  
[rah-mah-noo-juhn] / rɑˈmɑ nʊ dʒən /

noun

  1. Srinivasa 1887–1920, Indian mathematician.


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The molecular synthesis was carried out by Pradip Ghosh, Ramanujan Fellow, and Santi Prasad Rath, former PhD student at CeNSE.

From Science Daily Jan. 3, 2026

“We will not let water from our river enter into the other state at a time when our farmlands are barren,” said T. Ramanujan, the leader of a farmers’ union in Karnataka.

From Reuters Sep. 29, 2023

Ramanujan immediately contradicted his friend: “It is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.”

From Scientific American Mar. 3, 2023

“The Lion’s” Dev Patel is “The Man Who Knew Infinity” in this 2015 bio-drama about early 20th-century math whiz Srinivasa Ramanujan.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 7, 2017

The mathematician G. H. Hardy was visiting his protege, the Indian mathematician Ramanujan, in the hospital.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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