Monday, March 16, 2020

Prof Béla Bollobás (1963), explains the significance of Indian mathemati...

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"Though [Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887-1920] had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable. ... He became one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society and only the second Indian member, and the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge." (Source)

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