Article ID: CBB001211027

The Chief Accountant and Mathematical Friend of Ramanujan---S. Narayana Aiyar (2011)

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S. Narayana Aiyar was chief accountant at the Madras Port Trust office, where Ramanujan worked as a clerk in 1912--1914. In this article, a short biography of S. Narayana Aiyar is given, his mathematical contributions are discussed, and his personal and mathematical relationships with Ramanujan are examined and emphasized.

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Authors & Contributors
Ono, Ken
Craik, Alex D. D.
Berndt, Bruce C.
Rankin, Robert A.
Nandy, Ashis
Rao, K. Srinivasa
Journals
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Indian Journal of History of Science
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Historia Mathematica
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Publishers
American Mathematical Society
Oxford University Press
Edition am Gutenbergplatz Leipzig
El Colegio de Mexico
World Scientific
Presses Universitaires de Nancy
Concepts
Mathematics
Biographies
Mathematicians
Sequences and series (mathematics)
Logarithms
Number theory; number concept
People
Ramanujan, Srinivasa
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir
Boole, George
De Morgan, Augustus
Hamilton, William Rowan
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Ancient
18th century
17th century
Places
India
Great Britain
Greece
Canada
Scotland
China
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