Srinivasa Ramanujan

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Index
Introduction - 3
Biography - 3,4
Major Findings - 4,5
Movie Review - 5,6,7

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Introduction

Our task is to see the film "The Man Who Knew Infinity" and write a review of it. The
narrative of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician who made significant
contributions to the fields of number theory, series, and continuous fractions, is told
in this film. On April 8, 2016, the film was released.

Biography

Ramanujan was born in Erode, India, in 1887, a small town 400 kilometers
southwest of Madras. He moved to Kumbakonam with his parents when he was one
year old, where he later attended primary school and high school. Ramanujan
established that he was a good student in all disciplines during his high school years.
He began studying arithmetic and geometric series on his own in 1900, when he was
thirteen years old. He learned to solve degree three polynomials at the age of 15 and
created a method for solving degree four polynomials. He attempted in vain the
following year, oblivious of the non-existence of the solution formula for fifth degree
polynomials.Ramanujan focused on the consonant series, S(1/n), in 1904, when he
was 17 years old, and found the Euler steady, gamma, to 15 decimal places. He then
began to concentrate on Bernoulli numbers, which he made substantial disclosures
about.
He was admitted to the State University of Kumbakonam on the basis of his
outstanding academic performance. However, the award was not reinstated the next
year, owing to Ramanujan's increased devotion to a perfect opportunity to arithmetic
and dismissal of other topics. Ramanujan's research focused on hypergeometric
series and the relationships between integrals and series. He eventually discovered
that he had been focusing on ostensibly elliptic capacities. In 1906, he moved to
Madras and enrolled at the Pachaiyappa University.

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 His ambition was to ace the First Arts Examination and gain admission to the
University of Madras. He attended classes but grew ill after three months. Following
that, he took the First Arts Examination, passing arithmetic but bombing the
remaining subjects and, as a result, the exam. His entrance to the University of
Madras was denied

He continued to investigate mathematics for a long period with little or no

help. He was particularly focused on moving forward with divides and diverse series.
Regardless, Ramanujan married 10-year-old S. Janaki Ammal after just living with
her for a year after she turned 12 years old.
Ramanujan continued to develop his ideas and began introducing and
discussing them in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society. Ramanujan
received considerable recognition after publishing a brilliant paper on Bernoulli
numbers. He asked the author of a potential work from the Indian Mathematical
Society to prompt him in 1911, but he just found out how to secure a brief job in
Madras' General Accounting Office.

Major findings and contribute to mathematics

His series provides the basis for the fastest PI computation procedure.Finding
an accurate approximation of (pi) has been one of the most difficult achievements in
mathematical history. Ramanujan discovered a fast-convergent formula for
computing pi in 1914.With each term in the series, his formula computes an
additional eight decimal places of In 1989, the Chudnovsky brothers used a variant
of Ramanujan's infinite series to compute over 1 billion decimal places on a
supercomputer. This was a world record for the number of digits processed. In
addition, the Ramanujan series is now the source of the quickest calculations for
working out.In partition number theory, he invented the important circle
approach.The number of ways the full number can be represented as an amount of
positive numbers is called a segment for a positive number n.For example, p(4) = 5.
That means 4 can be expressed as a sum of positive numbers in five different ways:
4, 3+1, 2+2, 2+1+1, and 1+1+1 +1. Along with G. H. Hardy, Ramanujan devised the

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circle technique, which provided the most accurate estimations of the parcel of
numbers over 200. This method was largely responsible for considerable
breakthroughs in the twentieth century on well-known troublesome subjects such as
Waring's guess and other additional substance questions. The circle approach is
currently one of the logical number hypothesis' main apparatuses. Furthermore, the
circle technique and its improvements cover a large field of numerical ebb and flow
investigation.

The three Ramanujan's Congruences were found by him.

Ramanujan also proposed three stunning congruences for the parcel work p
in connection with the Partition Theory of Numbers (n). p(5n+4) = 0(mod 5), p(7n+4)
= 0(mod 7), and p(11n+6) = 0 (mod 11). For instance, primary harmony implies that if
a number is four times greater than a difference of five, the sum of its parts is a
variety of five. The research of Ramanujan type compatibility is a well-known number
hypothesis exploration topic. In 2011, a theoretical explanation for Ramanujan's
congruences was finally discovered. Ramanujan's work on the segment hypothesis
has applications in a variety of fields, including particle physics (particularly the
quantum field hypothesis) and probability theory.

Movie Review

The Man Who Knew Infinity is a 1991 film written by Robert Kanigel about the
mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The film provides a detailed, almost
exhaustive account of Ramanujan's childhood in India, his commitments to the
subject of mathematics, and his collaboration with British mathematician G.H. at
Cambridge University in the mid-twentieth century.
Ramanujan was born on December 22nd, 1887, in a British-controlled India.
His father worked as a sari shop agent. His mother was a stay-at-home mom who
also sung at a local church on occasion. After him, his mother had other children, but
only Ramanujan survived. He had a close relationship with his mother, who exposed
him to Brahmin culture, and he was a dominant student.
When he was first introduced to formal mathematics, he excelled at it
immediately away. By the age of 13, he had mastered geometry and was formulating
his own assumptions. He constantly finished his tests in a fraction of the time
allotted, and he assisted the institution in relegating understudies to study rooms.

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 Ramanujan quickly progressed: after figuring out how to solve cubic
problems, he developed his own method for dealing with quartic ones. Later, he
attempted to solve quintic conditions, despite the fact that he didn't realize there was
no mathematical solution.
When a friend gave him a copy of G. S. Carr's A Synopsis of Elementary
Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics, a collection of 5,000 hypotheses,
Ramanujan focussed on the content and applied it to more demonstrations of his
numerical virtuosity. He found the Bernoulli numbers, a grouping of objective
numbers, and precisely calculated the Euler-Mascheroni constant to 15 decimals.
Ramanujan received an arithmetic prize and a school stipend every time he
graduated. Regardless, he proved unfit to zero in any subject other than arithmetic,
and his grades suffered as a result, therefore he lost the grant. He failed to obtain his
certificate and dropped out of school to pursue math on his own while living in
poverty.
Finally, following a fortunate meeting with the author of the Indian
Mathematical Society, Ramanujan demonstrated his numerical journals to the guy
and received recognition for his brilliance. In Madras, he was offered an examination
post, and he began to spread his work.
After that, Ramanujan made a concerted effort to approach British
mathematicians with his findings. Some disregarded him outright, claiming that his
work was "laden with holes" and that if he hadn't prepared properly, he should have
been approached more seriously. Others, who appeared to be uninitiated, returned
his work. In the end, Ramanujan maintained contact with G.H. Tough. Hardy
wondered from the start if the computations Ramanujan had sent were really his.
However, he was astonished by several of Ramanujan's formulae, some of
which were new to him. He came to the conclusion that he had "never seen anything
like them" and that they "should be valid" because they could not have been
imagined from nothing. Strong recognized Ramanujan as a mathematician of the
highest order. He invited Ramanujan to visit Cambridge and show his theories.
Ramanujan refused to come right away; he was uninterested in leaving his
native India. However, after his mother had a dream in which the family goddess told
her to stop obstructing her child's desire, the family changed their minds, and
Ramanujan left for England, leaving his young bride.

Whenever he showed up, Hardy glanced through Ramanujan's journals and

found his virtuoso: however a few hypotheses were off-base and others had been
recently considered, many were leap forwards. The recognized, accomplished Hardy
and poor people, dark Ramanujan started to cooperate. Their societies habitually
conflicted; Hardy was a nonbeliever who demanded numerical verifications for all
hypotheses, while Ramanujan was ardent and liked to depend on instinct and
knowledge for his numerical leap forwards instead of working out the evidence.
Tough attempted to guide Ramanujan and impart the requirement for verification
without blocking his brightness. Ramanujan received a Bachelor of Science by
Research for his work on composite numbers, a degree that is currently comparable

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to a PhD. In 1917, he was elected to the London Mathematical Society, and the
following year, he became the first Indian to be elected to the Royal Fellow Society.
Unfortunately, Ramanujan's health began to deteriorate around this period.
His rigorous vegan diet, along with wartime apportioning, brought him a serious
deficiency of nutrients. He, too, contracted what could have been tuberculosis. He
worked on it for a while before returning to India, where he was unable to locate his
family. His better half and his mother were often at odds.
Ramanujan's health suffered as a result of the pressure, and he died at the
age of 32. Despite the fact that Tough outlived his protegee by many years, he
claimed that supporting Ramanujan with his revelations was the best work he ever
did.
The Man Who Knew Infinity was well received, but according to a New York
Times audit, Kanigel's methodology became bogged down in the details of
Ramanujan's life. The book was nominated for an ASJA Outstanding Book Award,
and it was turned into a feature film starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons in 2015.
Typically, I have a lot of questions about how mathematics works, why certain
theories exist, and who created them, and seeing movies can help me have a better
understanding of these people.
Ramanujan helped me understand how he came up with his theories. I believe it is
beneficial for us to write more articles, not just about films. But math-related things,
because math can help us think "outside the box." Math, in my opinion, is more than
just a written exercise; it is a part of our daily lives.