Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work by G. H. Hardy
Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work G. H. Hardy ebook
Page: 246
ISBN: 0821820230, 9780821820230
Format: djvu
Publisher: Ams Chelsea Pub.
The lost notebook ( just some 87 loose paper sheets , rest about Fractals were stolen) of valuable work done in India in his final year of his life, was finally found by George Andrews in 1976 in England at Wren Library of Trinity college . 25 year old Ramanujan wrote to Hardy on 16th Jan 1913. The Mathematical wonder or 120 statements of theorems on infinite series, . Hardy, Chelsea Publishing Co, New York, 1940. Then someone suggested that he must write to Prof GH Hardy . Page 17 of that book states that an estimated chess games are 10^10^50. He was honoured by the 'Padmashri' by the Government of India besides the number of accolades that he would have received during his life time. Read their book, "Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work (AMS Chelsea Publishing)" 1999. He was also credited for compiling folk-tales from across the country and categorizing them according to topics and analyzing them according to the cultural milieu. It's a seminal work which is today considered a reference point in the study of folk-literature. Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on the Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work by G. The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by R.