{"product_id":"ramanujan-essays-and-surveys","title":"Ramanujan: Essays and Surveys","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Bruce C Berndt\u003cbr\u003eRobert A Rankin\/\u003cbr\u003eEditor(s): Bruce C Berndt \/ Robert A Rankin\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Hindustan Book Agency\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2003\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 347\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8185931356\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book contains essays on Ramanujan and his work that were written especially for this volume. It also includes important survey articles in areas influenced by Ramanujan’s mathematics. Most of the articles in the book are nontechnical, but even those that are more technical contain substantial sections that will engage the general reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book opens with the only four existing photographs of Ramanujan, presenting historical accounts of them and information about other people in the photos. This section includes an account of a cryptic family history written by his younger brother, S Lakshmi Narasimhan. Following are articles on Ramanujan’s illness by R A Rankin, the British physician D A B. Young, and Novel laureate S Chandrasekhar. They present a study of his symptoms, a convincing diagnosis of the cause of his death, and a thorough exposition of Ramanujan’s life as a patient in English sanitariums and nursing homes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing this are biographies of S Janaki (Mrs. Ramanujan) and S Narayana Iyer, Chief Accountant of the Madras Port Trust Office, who first communicated Ramanujan’s work to the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society. The last half of the book begins with a section on Ramanujan’s Manuscripts and Notebooks. Included is an important article by G E Andrews on Ramanujan’s lost notebook.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe final two sections feature both nontechnical articles, such as Jonathan and Peter Borwein’s Ramanujan and pi, and more technical articles by Freeman Dyson, Atle Selberg, Richard Askey, and G N Watson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhotograph Credits\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCitations for Previously Published Papers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART: I\u003cbr\u003eTHE LIFE OF RAMANUJAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Four Photographs of Ramanujan\u003cbr\u003eThe Books Studied by Ramanujan in India\u003cbr\u003eThe Influence of Carr’s Synopsis on Ramanujan\u003cbr\u003eThe Notebooks of Srinivasa Ramanujan\u003cbr\u003eA Recently Discovered Letter Giving Ramanujan’s Examination Scores\u003cbr\u003eOn Ramanujan\u003cbr\u003eThe Ramanujan Family Record\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART: II\u003cbr\u003eRAMANUJAN’S ILLNESS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRamanujan As a Patient\u003cbr\u003eRamanujan’s Illness\u003cbr\u003eAn Incident in the Life of S Ramanujan, FRS: Conversations with G H Hardy, FRS and J E Littlewood, FRS and Their Sequel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART: III\u003cbr\u003eS JANAKI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eS Janaki Ammal (Mrs. Ramanujan)\u003cbr\u003eConversation I Didn’t Understand His Work, but I Knew His Worth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART: IV\u003cbr\u003eS NARAYANA IYER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Short Biography of S Narayana Iyer \u003cbr\u003eThe Distribution of Primes\u003cbr\u003eSome Theorems in Summation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART: V\u003cbr\u003eE H NEVILLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSrinivasa Ramanujan\u003cbr\u003eUniversity Lectures in Madras\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART: VI\u003cbr\u003eRAMANUJAN’S MANUSCRIPTS AND NOTEBOOKS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRamanujan’s Manuscripts and Notebooks\u003cbr\u003eRamanujan’s Manuscripts and Notebooks, II\u003cbr\u003eAn Overview of Ramanujan’s Notebooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART: VII\u003cbr\u003eNONTECHNICAL ARTICLES ON RAMANUJAN’S WORK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRamanujan and Pi\u003cbr\u003eRelated Developments Since 1988\u003cbr\u003eReflections around theramanujan Centenary\u003cbr\u003eThe Problems Submitted by Ramanujan to the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART: VIII\u003cbr\u003eSOMEWHAT MORE TECHNICAL ARTICLES ON RAMANUJAN’S WORK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Walk through Ramanujan’s Garden\u003cbr\u003eRamanujan and Hypergeometric and Basic Hypergeometric Series\u003cbr\u003eThe Final Problem: An Account of the Mock Theta Functions\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Bruce C Berndt \/ Hindustan Book Agency \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153645203824,"sku":"11376","price":40.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/11376.jpg?v=1793911965","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/ramanujan-essays-and-surveys","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}