Original upload date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 23:31:23 GMT
In this episode, we cover the history of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician who made substantial contributions to analytic number theory, infinite series and continued fractions. For his sho
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rt time on this earth, it's pretty wild how many results he produced in his notebooks, and the fact that active areas of research sprouted from them, with mathematicians spending a good part of the 20th century trying to prove his results.
As per usual, I don't go too deeply into the mathematics, focusing primarily on the history of the Ramanujan.
Sources:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KKRR8ZT3B24EAmUEpn-Z_Xd_HXzxesY8VI0yVAkTFCQ/edit?usp=sharing
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