Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan

1887 - 1920

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Ramanujan made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.
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List of References (32 books/articles)

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Honours awarded to Srinivasa Ramanujan
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Fellow of the Royal Society1918
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  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
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  4. A Sen (An article about the influence of Carr's book on Ramanujan)
  5. Kevin Brown (Something else about 1729)
  6. H K Strick
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