Back C. P. Ramanujam German Chidambaran Padmanabhan Ramanuyam Spanish Chakravarthi Padmanabhan Ramanujam French സി.പി. രാമാനുജം Malayalam 奇丹巴拉姆·帕德马纳班·拉马努詹 Chinese
C. P. Ramanujam | |
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| Born | 9 January 1938 Madras, Madras Presidency, British India |
| Died | 27 October 1974 (age 36) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Loyola College, Madras Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| Awards | Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| Doctoral advisor | K. G. Ramanathan |
Chakravarthi Padmanabhan Ramanujam (9 January 1938 – 27 October 1974) was an Indian mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and algebraic geometry. He was elected a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1973.
Like his namesake Srinivasa Ramanujan, Ramanujam also had a very short life.[1]
As David Mumford put it, Ramanujam felt that the spirit of mathematics demanded of him not merely routine developments but the right theorem on any given topic. "He wanted mathematics to be beautiful and to be clear and simple. He was sometimes tormented by the difficulty of these high standards, but in retrospect, it is clear to us how often he succeeded in adding to our knowledge, results both new, beautiful and with a genuinely original stamp".[2]