Taxicab Numbers, Nested Radicals & Continued Fractions, Partition functions, Ramanujan Primes, Ramanujan Sums, τ Function & Ramanujan's Conjecture were not the only things that stirred the world. His life will stir us within, whether we know math or not #MathBhakth #puṇyatithi
In his 1st humble letter to G.H.Hardy, Ramanujan seeks nothing but to publish. "I would request you to go through the enclosed papers. Being poor, if you are convinced that there is anything of value I would like to have my theorems published" #SrinivasaRamanujan
In December 1913, at the Namagiri temple of Namakal, Ramanujan rose from a dream, with the word he received in a flash of brilliant light "adesh" that signalled him to bypass the injunction against foreign travel he practised.
Once Hardy assured of no foul play. Ramanujan wrote “I am not the least apprehensive of my methods being utilized by others.. I have found a sympathetic friend in you and I am willing to place unreservedly in your possession what little I have.”
He often said “An equation for me has no meaning, unless it represents a thought of God.” He credited many of his discoveries to the Goddess Namagiri Devi.
January 1915, Ramanujan wrote to a friend in India "...now as well as in the future I am not in need of anything as I gained control over my taste and can live on mere rice with a little salt and lemon juice for an indefinite time"
March 1919 Ramanujan returned to India. Though seriously ill, he was continuing his work all the while. "Even during those months of prolonged illness he kept on working, though in a reclining position, at a furious pace and kept jotting down his results on sheets of paper."
In his last and only letter to Hardy written after his return to India, in January 1920, Ramanujan communicated his original work on what he called ‘mock’ theta functions.
“In his famous deathbed letter, Ramanujan introduced the notion of a mock theta function...Zwegers[2001 and 2002]...has elucidated the theory...Here we prove that Ramanujan’s examples do indeed satisfy his original definition” - Abstract of Griffin et al. (2013)
Today, Ramanujan’s incredible original works are finding applications in computer science, string theory and even in the mathematical basis of black hole physics. Salutations to Srinivasa Ramanujan on his #puṇyatithi #JaiNamagiriDevi
