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.
Stenhouse, Brigitte
Mechthild Koreuber
Sar, Satyabachi
Féry, Suzanne
Publishers
Edition am Gutenbergplatz Leipzig
Concepts
Mathematics
Mathematicians
Biographies
Logarithms
Sequences and series (mathematics)
Women in science
People
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Sartorius von Waltershausen,Wolfgang
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Modern
18th century
17th century
Places
India
Great Britain
England
Scotland
China
Canada
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