Question

Ramanujan was invented in England by which of the following professors.
(A) Prof. Harvey
(B) Prof. Hardy
(C) Prof. Williamson
(D) Prof. William Benedict

Answer 1

Hint: Srinivasa Ramanujan was born in Irod Nagar of Tamil Nadu. A professor called Ramanujan to England after evaluating his talent and to continue his research. He died at a very young age of 33 in 1920.

Complete step-by-step answer:
Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar, who was an Indian Mathematician, was born on 22nd December 1887. One of the most talented mathematicians of recent times was Srinivasa Ramanujan. His mother was Komalatammal and father was Kuppuswami. Ramanujan tried to avoid attending the school as he did not like the school but he later made a large contribution to the infinite series, number theory and continued fractions. He died on 26 April 1920 due to hepatic amoebiasis caused by the liver parasite. He was invented in England by Prof. G.H. Hardy in the early 1910s. Ramanujan did his own work after getting his degree at ambridge. He compiles over 3500 equations and identities in his life. In his ‘lost notebook,’ some of the identities were found. The mathematicians proved all of Ramanujan’s work when the notebook was discovered. Much advancement has taken place in mathematics due to his discoveries. In crystallography and string theory his formulas are used now. Srinivasa Ramanujan’s birthday was made as the annual “National Mathematics Day” in 2011 by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Thus, option (B) is correct.

Note: Srinivasa Ramanujan made contributions to the theory of numbers which includes the pioneering discoveries of the properties of the partition function. His papers were also published in European and English journals. He was elected to the Royal Society of London the year 1918.