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PROJECT 3

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Indian mathematicians and their contributions.

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It is no doubt that the world today is greatly indebted to the contributions made by Indian mathematicians. One of
the most important contribution made by them was the introduction of decimal system as well as the invention of
zero. Here are some of the famous Indian mathematicians of modern times and their contributions.
Srinivasa Ramanujan: Srinivasa Ramanujan is one of the celebrated Indian mathematicians. His important
contributions to the field include Hardy-Ramanujan-Littlewood circle method in number theory, Roger-
Ramanujan’s identities in partition of numbers, work on algebra of inequalities, elliptic functions, continued
fractions, partial sums and products of hypergeometric series.

P. C. Mahalanobis: Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis is the founder of Indian Statistical Institute as well as the
National Sample Surveys for which he gained international recognition.

C. R. Rao: Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, popularly known as C. R. Rao is a well-known statistician, famous
for his “Theory of Estimation”.

D. R. Kaprekar: D. R. Kaprekar discovered several results in number theory, including a class of numbers and
a constant named after him. Without any formal mathematical education he published extensively and was very
well known in recreational mathematics circle.

Harish Chandra: Harish Chandra is famously known for infinite dimensional group representation theory.
Narendra Karmarkar: Narendra Karmarkar is known for his Karmarkar’s algorithm. He is listed as a highly
cited researcher by Institute for Scientific Information.

Shakuntala Devi: Shakuntala Devi was an Indian writer and mathematical genius popularly known as the "human
computer". She was known to make complicated mathematical calculations in her head and effortlessly speak out
the results! Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records.

Manjul Bhargava: Manjul Bhargava is recognized internationally as one of the foremost mathematicians of
our times and one of the leading experts in number theory. He is the first person of Indian origin to have won the
coveted Fields Medal in Mathematics for his path-breaking work in Number Theory.

Study the above theories in detail and identify their relevance in various applications.

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