Namagiri DeviLanguage
The family deity Ramanujan revered. In the site, the term marks the devotional context he associated with mathematical insight.
Faith, Namakkal, goddess traditionKumbakonamPlaces
The Tamil Nadu temple town where Ramanujan was raised, educated, married, and later died in 1920.
Town High School, notebooks, final yearsErodePlaces
Ramanujan's birthplace in present-day Tamil Nadu. He was born there on 22 December 1887.
BirthplaceMadrasPlaces
The colonial-era name for Chennai. Ramanujan worked around Madras before his Cambridge journey and had patrons there.
University of Madras, Port TrustCambridgePlaces
The English university city where Ramanujan worked with G. H. Hardy at Trinity College from 1914 to 1919.
Hardy, Littlewood, Royal SocietyPartitionMathematics
A way of writing a positive integer as a sum of positive integers where order is not counted separately.
p(n), congruences, asymptotic formulaCongruenceMathematics
A modular arithmetic relation saying two quantities leave the same remainder after division by a chosen modulus.
Partition congruencesMock Theta FunctionMathematics
A mysterious q-series family from Ramanujan's final work, later understood through mock modular forms.
Lost Notebook, final letterq-SeriesMathematics
A power series in the variable q. Ramanujan used q-series throughout his work on theta functions, products, and partitions.
Rogers-Ramanujan identitiesModular FormMathematics
A highly symmetric complex analytic function. Many later proofs of Ramanujan's results use modular forms.
Tau function, eta productsSrinivasa RamanujanPeople
Indian mathematician whose notebooks, formulas, and conjectures reshaped number theory, analysis, partitions, and q-series.
1887-1920G. H. HardyPeople
Cambridge mathematician who recognized Ramanujan's genius, invited him to England, and collaborated with him.
Hardy-Ramanujan asymptotic formulaJanaki AmmalPeople
Ramanujan's wife, whose life intersected with his poverty, illness, separation during Cambridge years, and posthumous legacy.
BiographyNotebookConcepts
Ramanujan's handwritten collections of results, often stated without proofs and later studied by many mathematicians.
Three Notebooks, Lost NotebookLost NotebookConcepts
A manuscript collection rediscovered after Ramanujan's death, containing important late material including mock theta functions.
George Andrews, 1976 rediscoveryYantraLanguage
A sacred geometric diagram. Here it informs a restrained design vocabulary for mathematical symmetry and order.
Sacred geometry, mandala
