theory explainer

Born
22 December 1887
Erode, Mysore State, British India

Died
26 April 1920 (aged 32)
Kumbakonam, Madras, British India

Other names
Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar
Citizenship
British India

Education
Government Arts College (no degree)
Pachaiyappa's College (no degree)
Trinity College, Cambridge (BA)

Known for
Ramanujan's sum
Landau–Ramanujan constant
Mock theta functions
Ramanujan conjecture
Ramanujan prime
Ramanujan–Soldner constant
Ramanujan theta function
Rogers–Ramanujan identities
Ramanujan's master theorem
Hardy–Ramanujan asymptotic formula
Ramanujan–Sato series

Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society (1918)

Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
Trinity College, Cambridge
Thesis
Highly Composite Numbers (1916)
Academic advisors
G. H. Hardy
J. E. Littlewood
Influences
G. S. Carr

Signature
Srinivasa Ramanujan signature

A fossil tree was found in northern Thailand measuring 240 feet, indicating that the original tree was over 330 feet high and has been in a moist tropical forest for about 800,000 years.