Ward Melville HS - Ramanujan He was also a founding member of the indian Mathematical Society. K Was heimpressed by your work? R I believe so. He tried to arrange a scholarship for http://www.3villagecsd.k12.ny.us/wmhs/Departments/Math/OBrien/ramanujan2.html
Extractions: R: For example, I can distinctly remember an instance in fourth grade, while being taught the rules of division. My teacher told the class that a number divided by itself was one. The analogy was that if there were four children and four mangos, each child would get one mango. While the other students accepted this, I could not. What if there were zero mangos and zero people? Certainly they could not each get one then.
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Extractions: Multimedia 2005 Abel Symposium in honour of Kiyosi Itô A collector's item Abel Lectures 2005 on the web Peter D. Lax' speech in the University Aula ... What is the index theorem? To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Abel's birth the 1881 edition of his comlete works was leather-bound and numbered in 2002. With only 200 copies this is a collector's item. Read more Peter D. Lax gave his Abel Lecture at the University of Oslo on 25 May. Three other prominent mathematicians gave honourary lectures. The lectures were filmed and can now be viewed on the Abel Prize webpage, see link below. Read more - Norway is a small country but a giant in mathematics. I thank the Norwegian people for creating the Abel Prize, which gives visibility to mathematics that the subject sorely needs, said Peter D. Lax in his acceptance speech to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Read more Peter D. Lax received the Abel Prize 2005 from HRH the Crown Prince Regent of Norway at a ceremony in the University Aula in Oslo 24 May. HM the Queen was also present at the award ceremony.
The Hindu : A Little Known Museum In 1907, Aiyar was a founding member of the indian Mathematical Club, which grewinto the indian Mathematical Society, of which he became an officebearer. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/02/05/stories/2003020500220300.htm
Extractions: A little known museum S. MUTHIAH The Ramanujan Museum is a small, one-room museum visited mainly by school children. Few adults even know about it and it is on no tourist map of the city, not even in guides meant for more scholarly visitors to Madras. But in this little-known museum, there's a treasure of pictures, letters and documents focussing on one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th Century. I TAKE another detour this fortnight, this one necessitated by a rather stern admonition from Dr. K. Srinivasa Rao of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences who pointed out to me the dangers of relying on secondary and tertiary sources and repeating the errors in them. He was referring to my piece on Sir Francis Spring on January 15th and my reference to an Englishman named AIGAR who had helped Ramanujan in the Port Trust. Dr. Rao and several others have pointed out that the benefactor was, in fact, S.N. (Narayana) Aiyar. I had apparently been perpetuating a printer's mistake, though I must say that in the three or four articles I had seen `Aigar' used, it was repeated that he was the Port Manager and I had accepted the name as being correct, as an Indian was unlikely to have held the No.2 position at the time. That mystery too has now been solved.
The Aryabhatiya: Foundations Of Indian Mathematics | Gongol.com Aryabhata is the earliest indian mathematician whom historians know by name. Aryabhata was not the first indian mathematician to display that he could http://www.gongol.com/research/math/aryabhatiya/
Extractions: Aryabhata is the earliest Indian mathematician whom historians know by name. He lived from 476 to 550 C.E. Little else is known about him. There has long been confusion regarding his identity; there was another notable Indian mathematician named Aryabhata who flourished sometime between 950 and 1100 C.E. Often, the latter is referred to as Aryabhata II. Also, the Persian historian al-Biruni believed that there were two famous Indian mathematicians named Aryabhata who lived around 500 C.E. The subsequent confusion from this blunder ensued until it was disproved in 1926 (Suzuki 219-220). Prior to Aryabhata, Vedic sutras (early Hindu scriptures) had expounded on geometric relationships for religious purposes such as altar construction and keeping track of calendars. Jain mathematicians also excelled at mathematics prior to Aryabhata. In light of this, some scholars suggest that Aryabhata intended for his Aryabhatiya to be a commentary on previous mathematicians and astronomers or possibly a skeletal outline of his small contributions to the canon of knowledge (Srinivasiengar 42). It is written in the Sanskrit language, the language of the Aryans - the people from Europe who migrated to India around 1500 B.C.E. and melded with the indigenous Indian culture to form Hindu culture (Watson 30). The style of the Aryabhatiya is difficult to describe. It does not read like a practical manual as does the Chinese Nine Chapters nor does it read like a basic set of theoretical proofs like Euclid's Elements. The Aryabhatiya is written in poetic verse - typical of Sanskrit works - and seems to be more like a collection of anecdotes and mnemonic devices to aid in teaching mathematical and astronomical ideas than a traditional text. It is highly likely that the study of the Aryabhatiya would be accompanied by the teachings of a well-versed tutor.
Why Indian Science Scores - The Hindu indian mathematical innovations, writes Teresi, had a profound effect onneighbouring cultures. The greatest impact was on Islamic culture, http://www.shashitharoor.com/articles/hindu/science.shtml
Extractions: June 08, 2003 And yet the roots of Indian science and technology go far deeper than Nehru. I was reminded of this yet again by a remarkable new book, Lost Discoveries , by the American writer Dick Teresi. Teresi's book studies the ancient non-Western foundations of modern science, and while he ranges from the Babylonians and Mayans to Egyptians and other Africans, it is his references to India that caught my eye. And how astonishing those are! The Rig Veda asserted that gravitation held the universe together 24 centuries before the apple fell on Newton's head. The Vedic civilisation subscribed to the idea of a spherical earth at a time when everyone else, even the Greeks, assumed the earth was flat. By the Fifth Century A.D. Indians had calculated that the age of the earth was 4.3 billion years; as late as the 19th Century, English scientists believed the earth was a hundred million years old, and it is only in the late 20th Century that Western scientists have come to estimate the earth to be about 4.6 billion years old. If I were to focus on just one field in this column, it would be that of mathematics. India invented modern numerals (known to the world as "Arabic" numerals because the West got them from the Arabs, who learned them from us!). It was an Indian who first conceived of the zero
Ancient Indian Science All these quotes show that the role of the ancient indian mathematician was verygreat and profound. Ancient indian astronomy http://www.termpapergenie.com/AncientIndianScience.html
Extractions: It would seem surprising that India, which was repeatedly attacked and colonized by foreigners maintained her rich cultural traditions intact for thousands of years. All the scientific knowledge that India possessed were part and parcel of this culture, and hence they too remained intact with their respective custodians. Perhaps it is the immense bonding between culture, religion and scientific spirit of the Hindus that has helped them to keep the treasures of their scientific knowledge intact. Enter Your Term Paper Topic Here:
Conference / Workshop Participation The 56th Annual Conference of the indian Mathematical Society, South GujaratUniversity, Surat, December 1990. IndoUSSR Conference on Geometry, http://www.math.iitb.ac.in/~srg/Conference.html
Extractions: Participated in the following conferences and workshops. An organizer in the case of conferences listed in items 10, 20, 37, 47 and 69. Chaired a session during the conferences listed in items 21, 35, 37, 41, 42, 45, 47, 49, 52 54, 62, 64 and 69. Summer Course on Mathematical Analysis and Probability, conducted by the Indian Statistical Institute, Mysore, June-July 1983.
NUMBERS: THEIR HISTORY AND MEANING In 1907, the indian Mathematical Society was founded, and two years later theJournal of the indian Mathematical Society started in Madres. http://home.c2i.net/greaker/comenius/9899/indiannumerals/india.html
Extractions: Written by: Berat Jusufi, Jon-Fredrik Stryker, Vegard Larsen NUMBERS: THEIR HISTORY AND MEANING History of numerals coming from India: It is now universally accepted that our decimal numbers derive from forms, which were invented in India and transmitted via Arab culture to Europe, undergoing a number of changes on the way. We also know that several different ways of writing numbers evolved in India before it became possible for existing decimal numerals to be marred with the place-value principle of the Babylonians to give birth to the system which eventually became the one which we use today. Because of lack of authentic records, very little is known of the development of ancient Hindu mathematics. The earliest history is preserved in the 5000-year-old ruins of a city at Mohenjo Daro, located Northeast of present-day Karachi in Pakistan. Evidence of wide streets, brick dwellings an apartment houses with tiled bathrooms, covered city drains, and community swimming pools indicates a civilisation as advanced as that found anywhere else in the ancient Orient. These early peoples had systems of writing, counting, weighing, and measuring, and they dug canals for irrigation. All this required basic mathematics and engineering.
Science, Civilization And Society In the same way an indian mathematician did not consciously think indianmathematicians used their revolutionary number system to advance human http://www.es.flinders.edu.au/~mattom/science society/lectures/lecture6.html
Srinivasa Ramanujan V. Ramaswamy Iyer (Founder of indian Mathematical Society), the Cambridgemathematician who `discovered the great indian mathematician Ramanujan. http://www.meta-religion.com/Mathematics/Biography/srinivasa_ramanujan.htm
Extractions: to promote a multidisciplinary view of the religious, spiritual and esoteric phenomena. About Us Links Search Contact ... Science home Religion sections World Religions New Religious Groups Ancient Religions Spirituality ... Extremism Science sections Archaeology Astronomy Linguistics Mathematics ... Contact Please, help us sustain this free site online. Make a donation using Paypal: (Dec. 22, 1887 April 26, 1920) K. Srinivasa Rao The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madras-600 113. Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) hailed as an all-time great mathematician, like Euler, Gauss or Jacobi, for his natural genius Ramanujan's Notebooks References: Dictionary of Scientific Biography Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica G H Hardy, Ramanujan (Cambridge, 1940). R A Rankin, Ramanujan's manuscripts and notebooks, Bull. London Math. Soc.
Ramanujan indian individuals and published several papers in indian mathematical initial unsolicited missive by an unknown and untrained indian mathematician, http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/Ramanujan.wikipedia
Extractions: Regular View Dictionary View (all words explained) Algebra Help my dictionary with pronunciation , wikipedia etc (Redirected from Ramanujan Ramanujan Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan Tamil December 22 April 26 ) was a groundbreaking Indian mathematician . A child prodigy , he was largely self-taught in mathematics. Ramanujan mainly worked in analytical number theory and is famous for many summation formulas involving constants such as prime numbers and the partition function . Often, his formulae were stated without proof and were only later proven to be true. His results inspired a large amount of later research and mathematical papers. In the Ramanujan Journal was launched to publish work "in areas of mathematics influenced by Ramanujan". Ramanujan was born in in Erode Tamil Nadu India . In at age 10, he entered the Town High School in Kumbakonam , where he appears to have first encountered formal mathematics. At 11 he had mastered the mathematical knowledge of the lodgers at his home, both students at the Government College, and was loaned books on advanced trigonometry, which he mastered by 13. His biographer reports that by 14 his genius was beginning to show. Not only did he achieve merit certificates and academic awards throughout his school years, he was assisting the school in the logistics of assigning its 1200 students (each with their own needs) to its 35-odd teachers, completing exams in half the allotted time, was already showing his familiarity with infinite series; his peers at the time later commented "We, including teachers, rarely understood him," and "stood in respectful awe" of him. However, Ramanujan could not concentrate on other subjects and failed his high school exams. At this time in his life, he was also quite poor and was often pushed to the point of starvation.
Ablog: The Apress Weblog The indian mathematician was Srinivasa Ramanujan (see http//www.usna.edu/Users/math/meh/ramanujan.html for example). He died tragically, probably of http://blogs.apress.com/archives/000206.html
Extractions: Let's see: I was a mathematician for more than 20 years. Heck, I was the prototype mathlete. Actually went directly to my PH.D without a bachelors degree. Got my Ph.D at a ridiculously young age. And yes I was undersocialized and difficult when I was in my prime of "minding mathematics." But hey, most hyperspecialists are somewhat undersocialized. Only so much time in a day you know. But what about the facts? Well, I know hundreds, if not thousands of mathematicians and am familiar with most of the literature about what makes mathematicians "tick." I have neither seen, nor heard nor read anything that would indicate that mathematicians are more prone to mental illness than any other group of people and I challenge Mr. Hu to give us some evidence for his absurd claim.
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Academic Achievements Work/Thesis/Patent/Field Work The Bakhshali Manuscript An Ancient indian Mathematical Treatise Collection ofAstronomical and Mathematical Works in India, Asahi Press, http://kenkyudb.doshisha.ac.jp/rd/search/researcher/186003/achievements-e.html
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Extractions: Bhupendra M. Gandhi It was a simple request, expressed in a letter to AV, by Ms. Jyoti Shah, whose curiosity was aroused after watching a documentary on Channel four. Although she only mentioned that it was about an Indian mathematician, who was a genius in his chosen field, the alert and knowledgable readers were soon on the right track and I was inundated with information, by phone, fax and email. Srinivas Ramanujam Aiyangar was born on 22nd December 1887, in a poor Brahmin family, in a small village in the State of Tamil Nadu. He suffered from poor health all his life and died on 26th April 1920, at a very young age of 32. He was a natural-born mathematician, at least 50 years ahead of his time, in his research and his working method. He was not always right or even on right track. In fact he made many mistakes but he dared to explore and write formulas which no one would dare to enter into. He crossed the frontier of science that others would only dream about. Although Ramanujam was a genius in pure mathematics, he was, equally very poor in other subjects, perhaps he concentrated all his energies on mathematics. His scholarship to Government College in Kumbakonam was terminated after only one year, as he did so badly in all his subjects except pure mathematics.
KeepMedia | Esquire: In Praise Of Nothing The indian mathematician Mahavira demonstrates that zero has numerical value . The indian mathematician Sridhara recognizes the importance of zero; http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/Esquire/1999/08/01/171476?extID=10026
The Magic Of Vedic Maths - What's This? Related Resources. Vedic Maths Formulae Vedic Maths on the Web IndianMathematicians Vedas Vedanta About Maths GuideSite http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/aa062901a.htm
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