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Mathematics Wizard Srinivasa Ramanujan
The book depicts the interesting story of a mysterious Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, with no college education, whose mathematics in a series of letters to a Cambridge Mathematician, G.H. Hardy, shook the entire mathematics community. It is an exciting journey of a poor, self-taught and god-gifted mathematician who by the age of 31 became the youngest Fellow of Royal Society of London.
Even after almost 100 years of his death at the age of 32, his results mysteriously find applications in modern world such as in the study of black holes, quantum gravity, cryptography and many others.
Ramanujan’s life story and work has inspired numerous people and generations of mathematicians around the globe and continue to excite even today. We hope that the book will reach the current generation and generate interest in mathematics.
Narendra Kumar Govil is presently Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Auburn University, U.S.A. He received M.Sc. from Aligarh Muslim University, India and Ph.D. from University of Montreal, Canada. Before joining Auburn University in 1983, he was Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India and received Alumni Professorship at Auburn University. He has published more than 100 research papers and books, and is presently Editor/Associate Editor of several journals in mathematics.
Bhu Dev Sharma, Ph.D. from Delhi University, taught there at Department of Mathematics; in 1979 joined as chair professor at University of the West Indies; in 1988 moved to Xavier University of Louisiana, USA; following that was President of Hindu University of America, Orlando; in 2002 joined Clark University, Atlanta; in 2008, he returned to India to join JP Institute of Information Technology, Noida; retired in 2014. Published more than 160 research papers, 23 books, guided 28 Ph.D. students; Chief Editor of journal JCISS; received awards from India’s Prime Minister, several institutions in USA, India, Trinidad, and Japan.