Frases de Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivāsa Aiyangār Rāmānujan , foi um matemático indiano. Sem formação acadêmica, realizou contribuições substanciais nas áreas da análise matemática, teoria dos números, séries infinitas, frações continuadas, etc.

Sua história é relatada no filme intitulado The Man Who Knew Infinity , no qual Ramanujan é interpretado por Dev Patel.

✵ 22. Dezembro 1887 – 26. Abril 1920

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Srinivasa Ramanujan: Frases em inglês

“Sir, an equation has no meaning for me unless it expresses a thought of GOD.”

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Srinivasa Ramanujan

Statement to a friend, quoted in Ramanujan, the Man and the Mathematician (1967) by Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, p. 88
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An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.
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“I beg to introduce myself to you as a clerk in the Accounts Department of the Port Trust Office at Madras… I have no University education but I have undergone the ordinary school course. After leaving school I have been employing the spare time at my disposal to work at Mathematics. I have not trodden through the conventional regular course which is followed in a University course, but I am striking out a new path for myself. I have made a special investigation of divergent series in general and the results I get are termed by the local mathematicians as "startling"…. Very recently I came across a tract published by you styled Orders of Infinity in page 36 of which I find a statement that no definite expression has been as yet found for the number of prime numbers less than any given number. I have found an expression which very nearly approximates to the real result, the error being negligible. I would request that you 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. I have not given the actual investigations nor the expressons that I get but I have indicated the lines on which I proceed. Being inexperienced I would very highly value any advice you give me. Requesting to be excused for the trouble I give you. I remain, Dear Sir, Yours truly…”

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Letter to G. H. Hardy, (16 January 1913), published in Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary American Mathematical Society (1995) History of Mathematics, Vol. 9