Ramanujan
Americannoun
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In 1914, shortly before leaving Madras for Cambridge, renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a paper presenting 17 different formulas for calculating pi.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025
“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
We are creatures capable of the fugues of Bach, the verses of Yeats, the stories of Twain, the creations of Dalí and, for that matter, the mathematics of Gödel, Ramanujan and Turing.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 17, 2018
“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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