A (very) Brief History of Srinivasa Ramanujan

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 short 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.

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[Englishsea]

Watched the movie The Man Who Knew Infinity, and found his life story to be truly sad. It was always an uphill struggle for him to get appreciated, and he was descriminated against constantly. Add to that he died so young. I'm glad he was honoured with being made a fellow of the society, and that his name lives on forever. Totally deserved

[kriterer]

These brief history videos offer an *elite* intro to the history of math. Nice work

[markcarey]

Great video. I remember coming across his formula for the approximation of pi in a calculus textbook and being absolutely staggered by it: how the hell could a human mind conceive of this? where did this come from? It's like he was a member of an advanced alien species just pretending to be human.

[ConnoisseurOfExistence]

I'll never change my mind, that Cantor is the greatest mathematician and mind in general in history, yet Ramanujan now takes my personal #2. As someone on other documentary said about him, no other great mathematician of any time have learned so much mathematics on their own, no one comes even close.

[torquesjr]

Awesome video man! Keep up the good work

[fandibataineh]

when you are making a video about Newton?

[srivatsav]

A very nice video from a very good channel keep it up 👍👍

[arumugamsamyvel]

Really enjoyed the video, great work buddy

[arupratan]

Ramanujan said he received formulas through revelation from Goddess.
Hardy and Littlewood were these poor guys who took all efforts to prove these truly hard formulas who are direct revelation of Goddess!!!

Ramanujan was just a medium between Goddess and Hardy

[shankranna]

concise and makes the point. Overall enjoyed the presentation. Thank you. I wish the narrater could have learned to say the names of the Indian cities etc more accurately. Somehow mispropounciation of a french word is considered ignorance, but the same does not apply to words in an Indian Language?

[azzteke]

Ramanujan - The stress is on the second "A"!

[ethanjensen]

:) ramanujan is one of my favorite mathematicians. Thank you. Although ramanujan is pronounced raMANujan, with the stress on the second syllable.

[_francocarballo]

No entiendo inglés, pero de todas formas aprendo mucho con tus vídeos jeje

[cyrusthegreat]

I understood my problem! I dint get the boss who encouraged the hobby like Ramanujan! Otherwise I would have…😂

[teepee]

Yes, community standards are an exemplary idea: that is what I was seeking from the narrator.

[markhirstwood]

Music shouldn't play through the whole video.