What was so great about Srinivasa Ramanujan?

Light, sound, pressure variations etc. are physical entities that are processed by human brain without much of conscious control needed. I would dare to assume that mathematics is also the same, we have an internal representation of number line. read more

10 Things to Know about Srinivasa Ramanujan, the Genius Who Continues to Amaze the World by Varun Jadia April 20, 2016, 6: 33 pm T he world will soon remember the renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan once again, as a biopic on his life, named The Man Who Knew Infinity, is set to release this April. read more

In his paper "On certain arithmetical functions", Ramanujan defined the so-called delta-function whose coefficients are called τ(n) (the Ramanujan tau function). He proved many congruences for these numbers such as τ(p) ≡ 1 + p 11 mod 691 for primes p. read more