Post on 25-May-2015
description
transcript
SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN
And his Magic Square
Basic Information about Ramanujan
•Born: 22 December 1887 in Erode, British India
• Died : 26 April 1920 in Chetput,British India because of hepatic amoebiasis(a parasitic infection of the liver)
• His mother was a housewife and his father worked as a clerk in a sari shop
•He could not spent a stable childhood because of his poor family and their life standarts
•About his talent,G.H. Hardy, who was known a big mathematician and one of Ramanujan’s academic advisors with J.E. Littlewood, said only a few giant mathematicians like Euler,Gauss,Newton had the same talent which Ramanujan had.
His Early Life
• By age 12,he mastered an advanced trigonometry book written by S.L. Loney by himself
•After his graduation from high school,he could not get a degree from both colleges he entered at different times(Government College,Pachaiyappa’s College) due to his unwillingness about subjects except mathematics and he could not enter any university
•He has become seriously ill from time to time and they took so much time to be recovered.
RAMANUJAN’S MAGIC SQUARE
22 12 18 87
88 17 9 25
10 24 89 16
19 86 23 11
This square looks like any other normal magic square. But this is formed by great mathematician of our country – Srinivasa Ramanujan.
What is so great in it?
RAMANUJAN’S MAGIC SQUARE
22 12 18 87
88 17 9 25
10 24 89 16
19 86 23 11
Sum of numbers of any row is 139.
What is so great in it.?
RAMANUJAN’S MAGIC SQUARE
22 12 18 87
88 17 9 25
10 24 89 16
19 86 23 11
Sum of numbers of any column is also 139.
Oh, this will be there in any magic square.
What is so great in it..?
RAMANUJAN’S MAGIC SQUARE
22 12 18 87
88 17 9 25
10 24 89 16
19 86 23 11
Sum of numbers of any diagonal is also 139.
Oh, this also will be there in any magic square.
What is so great in it…?
RAMANUJAN’S MAGIC SQUARE
22 12 18 87
88 17 9 25
10 24 89 16
19 86 23 11
Sum of corner numbers is also 139.
Interesting?
RAMANUJAN’S MAGIC SQUARE
22 12 18 87
88 17 9 25
10 24 89 16
19 86 23 11
Look at these possibilities. Sum of identical coloured boxes is also 139.
Interesting..?
RAMANUJAN’S MAGIC SQUARE
22 12 18 87
88 17 9 25
10 24 89 16
19 86 23 11
Look at these possibilities. Sum of identical coloured boxes is also 139.
Interesting..?
RAMANUJAN’S MAGIC SQUARE
22 12 18 87
88 17 9 25
10 24 89 16
19 86 23 11
Look at these central squares.
Interesting…?
RAMANUJAN’S MAGIC SQUARE
22 12 18 87
88 17 9 25
10 24 89 16
19 86 23 11
Can you try these combinations?
Interesting…..?
RAMANUJAN’S MAGIC SQUARE
22 12 18 87
88 17 9 25
10 24 89 16
19 86 23 11
Try these combinations also?
Interesting.…..?
RAMANUJAN’S MAGIC SQUARE
22 12 18 87
88 17 9 25
10 24 89 16
19 86 23 11
NOWLETS FACE THE
CLIMAX
RAMANUJAN’S MAGIC SQUARE
22 12 18 87
88 17 9 25
10 24 89 16
19 86 23 11
Do you know date of birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan?
RAMANUJAN’S MAGIC SQUARE
22 12 18 87
88 17 9 25
10 24 89 16
19 86 23 11
It is 22nd Dec 1887.
RAMANUJAN’S MAGIC SQUARE
22 12 18 87
88 17 9 25
10 24 89 16
19 86 23 11
It is 22nd Dec 1887.
Yes. It is 22.12.1887
THANK YOU