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Ramanujan

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[rah-mah-noo-juhn] / rɑˈmɑ nʊ dʒən /

noun

  1. Srinivasa 1887–1920, Indian mathematician.


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The molecular synthesis was carried out by Pradip Ghosh, Ramanujan Fellow, and Santi Prasad Rath, former PhD student at CeNSE.

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In 1914, shortly before leaving Madras for Cambridge, renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a paper presenting 17 different formulas for calculating pi.

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Ramanujan's methods became foundational to modern mathematical and computational approaches for calculating pi, including those used by today's most advanced machines.

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"These algorithms are actually based on Ramanujan's work."

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The researchers discovered that the mathematical framework at the heart of Ramanujan's pi formulas also appears in the equations underlying these logarithmic conformal field theories.

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