Famous mathematicians born in january
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician (1887–1920)
"Ramanujan" redirects here. For other uses, see Ramanujan (disambiguation).
In this Indian name, the name Srinivasa is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Ramanujan.
Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS | |
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Ramanujan in 1913 | |
| Born | Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar (1887-12-22)22 månad 1887 Erode, Mysore State, British India (now in Tamil Nadu, India) |
| Died | 26 April 1920(1920-04-26) (aged 32) Kumbakonam, Tanjore District, Madras Presidency, British India (now Thanjavur district, |
| Citizenship | British Indian |
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| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society (1918) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Highly Composite Numbers (1916) |
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Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar[a] (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathe
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Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Birth/1921 - 1930 CE
For more comprehensive information on the lives and works of mathematicians through the ages, see the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, created by John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson.
- The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten.
- -- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London
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Marion Kirkland Fort, Jr $($$\text {1921}$ – $\text {1964}$$)$
American mathematician specialising in t
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January brought nice surprises to me. I had no idea that two of my favorite mathematicians are born in January and also the birthdays are so close to each other in term of days, obviously not years. Moreover, I have found another interesting mathematician (new to me) which was also born in January. So I thought it is absolutely necessary to write a small post about them.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, born on 25 January 1736, was an Italian Enlightenment Era mathematician and astronomer. He made significant contributions to the fields of analysis, number theory, and both classical and celestial mechanics.
At first I was surprised to see that he is Italian because all my life I was sure he is French. To my surprise, i have found that he was born in Turin ( the former capital of Italy near the French border) and even did his studies there. His real name was Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia. He went to university of Turin to become a lawyer, but changed his mind for mathematics when he was 17-18