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Today is 131st birthday of #Ramanujan, celebrated as #NationalMathematicsDay in India.
This year is also the 100th anniversary of his election as FRS.
131 is a palindromic and permutable prime with 113 and 311.
Can also be stated as the sum of 3 consecutive primes 41 + 43 + 47. Image
#Ramanujan's letter to Hardy is an all-time classic -
"I beg to introduce myself to you as a clerk"
"I have no University education"
"I have not trodden through the conventional ... but I am striking out a new path"
"I have made a special investigation of divergent series" Image
There are ~ 4 photos #Ramanujan according to
"Ramanujan: Essays and Surveys" by Bruce Berndt and co.
bookstore.ams.org/hmath-22

Ramanujan's Lost Notebook series here:
springer.com/series/7261 ImageImageImageImage
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