Ramanujan

[ rah-mah-noo-juhn ]

noun

1. Sri·ni·va·sa [shree, -ni-, vah, -s, uh, sree, -], 1887–1920, Indian mathematician.

Example Sentences

“We will not let water from our river enter into the other state at a time when our farmlands are barren,” said T. Ramanujan, the leader of a farmers’ union in Karnataka.

From Reuters

In 2011, Delhi University dropped an essay by scholar AK Ramanujan on the various iterations of the epic after protests by hard-line Hindu groups, who complained that the versions recounted there offended religious beliefs.

From BBC

Ramanujan immediately contradicted his friend: “It is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.”

From Scientific American

In the beginning of the twentieth century, the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan devised many more Euler-style infinite series for pi.

From Literature

Hardy was flabbergasted to see that Ramanujan had rediscovered results that had taken centuries to achieve, and invited him to England, where the men collaborated before Ramanujan died at age 32.

From Literature