Subject: Re: [HM] Who Ramanujan wrote to before Hardy
From: Dinesh Maheshwari/CAD (dsm@cypress.com)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 22:44:21 EST
Dear HM list members,
Professor Richard Askey certainly knows more about Ramanujan than I do
and I thank him for the information. I had used the phrase "written to"
quite loosely (thus starting the confusion) to connote the people
Ramanujan had "approached in person or in writing".
As I had mentioned to John Mckay in a private email (dated Feb. 4th 2000),
upon careful review of the notes I had taken in 1981 for writing an article on
Ramanujan I found two additional persons that Ramanujan had "approached"-
1. E Ross, professor, Madras Christian College
2. Sir G? Walker - head of the Indian observatories and also a mathematician.
(the scribble in my notebook looks like a G but I am not sure, perhaps
Professor Richard Askey can confirm whether it is indeed a G).
I remember taking the notes from the then recently published book by S Ram
titled "Srinivas Ramanujan" (which I believe was published in 1980) and some
articles on Ramanujan from southern India. However, I do not have access to
them anymore, owing to a long distance move that I had to undertake during
which I had to "lighten my burden".
Best regards,
Dinesh
Richard Askey wrote:
> Dinesh Maheshwari listed some of the people Ramanujan wrote to before
> he wrote to Hardy. He listed
> 1. E W Middlemast
> 2. C L T Griffith
> 3. Founder Indian Mathematical Society
> 4. M J M Hill
> 5. Chief Accountant for the Madras Port Trust
> 6. E W Hobson
> 7. H F Baker
> 8. G H Hardy
> Not all of these were written to. For example, S. Narayana Iyer, who
> is 5, became a good friend of Ramanujan, and Ramanujan lived in Narayana
> Iyer's for a while.
-- Dinesh Maheshwari Advanced Design Methods Cypress Semiconductor San Jose, CA, USA
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