The students of Apeejay Institute of Management & Engineering Technical Campus (AIMETC) gathered recently at an event held in the college to honour renowned Indian mathematician S Ramanujan and his substantial contributions to mathematical theories. The event was organised on his birth anniversary, which is also celebrated as National Mathematics Day every year on December 22.
Students from BTech, BCA, and MCA, participated in the event. They were shown an interesting PowerPoint presentation titled: “Srinivas Ramanujan: The Mathematician & His Legacy”. It highlighted the great mathematician’s life history, achievements, and mathematical research. Ramanujan is said to have had no formal training in pure mathematics and yet contributed to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. He worked out the Riemann series, the elliptic integrals, hypergeometric series, the functional equations of the zeta function, and his own theory of divergent series, in which he found a value for the sum of such series using a technique he invented that came to be called Ramanujan summation.
Assistant professor Prabhjot Kaur was the resource person for the event who enlightened the students about some ground-breaking new theorems credited to Ramanujan. During his short life, he independently compiled nearly 3,900 results, mainly identities and equations, of which, all but a dozen or two have now been proven correct.
Meanwhile, Dr Rajesh Bagga, director, AIMETC, motivated students to seek inspiration from the life of the great mathematician and other luminaries. The students thoroughly enjoyed the session and gained a lot of insight and were deeply inspired by the life and achievements of Ramanujan.