1887 - 1920
Srinivasa Ramanujan (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable. Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Srinivasa Ramanujan has received more than 24,673,344 page views. His biography is available in 92 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Srinivasa Ramanujan is the 28th most popular mathematician (down from 17th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from India (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Mathematician.
Srinivasa Ramanujan is most famous for his contributions to number theory and infinite series.
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Among mathematicians, Srinivasa Ramanujan ranks 28 out of 823. Before him are Joseph Fourier, Hero of Alexandria, Luca Pacioli, David Hilbert, Évariste Galois, and Pope Sylvester II. After him are François Viète, John Napier, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Georg Cantor, Gerolamo Cardano, and George Boole.
1768 - 1830
HPI: 75.66
Rank: 22
10 - 75
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 23
1445 - 1517
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 24
1862 - 1943
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 25
1811 - 1832
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 26
938 - 1003
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 27
1887 - 1920
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 28
1540 - 1603
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 29
1550 - 1617
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 30
1789 - 1857
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 31
1845 - 1918
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 32
1501 - 1576
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 33
1815 - 1864
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 34
Among people born in 1887, Srinivasa Ramanujan ranks 8. Before him are Erwin Schrödinger, Marc Chagall, Charles I of Austria, Erich von Manstein, Chiang Kai-shek, and Marcel Duchamp. After him are Ernst Röhm, Padre Pio, Arthur Rubinstein, Bernard Montgomery, Wilhelm Canaris, and Jozef Tiso. Among people deceased in 1920, Srinivasa Ramanujan ranks 4. Before him are Max Weber, Amedeo Modigliani, and Wilhelm Wundt. After him are Eugénie de Montijo, Peter Carl Fabergé, Robert Peary, Alexander Kolchak, Max Bruch, Alexander of Greece, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Princess Margaret of Connaught.
1887 - 1961
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 2
1887 - 1985
HPI: 78.39
Rank: 3
1887 - 1922
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 4
1887 - 1973
HPI: 77.23
Rank: 5
1887 - 1975
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 6
1887 - 1968
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 7
1887 - 1920
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 8
1887 - 1934
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 9
1887 - 1968
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 10
1887 - 1982
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 11
1887 - 1976
HPI: 71.76
Rank: 12
1887 - 1945
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 13
1887 - 1947
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 14
1864 - 1920
HPI: 86.05
Rank: 1
1884 - 1920
HPI: 78.41
Rank: 2
1832 - 1920
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 3
1887 - 1920
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 4
1826 - 1920
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 5
1846 - 1920
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 6
1856 - 1920
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 7
1874 - 1920
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 8
1838 - 1920
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 9
1893 - 1920
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 10
1856 - 1920
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 11
1882 - 1920
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 12
Among people born in India, Srinivasa Ramanujan ranks 15 out of 1,493. Before him are A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), Vivien Leigh (1913), Ramakrishna (1836), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), and Nagarjuna (150). After him are Rudyard Kipling (1865), Indira Gandhi (1917), Kālidāsa (400), Shivaji (1627), Ānanda (-600), and Bodhidharma (483).
1931 - 2015
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 9
1889 - 1964
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 10
1913 - 1967
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 11
1836 - 1886
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 12
1891 - 1956
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 13
150 - 250
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 14
1887 - 1920
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 15
1865 - 1936
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 16
1917 - 1984
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 17
400 - 420
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 18
1627 - 1680
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 19
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 20
483 - 540
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 21
Among mathematicians born in India, Srinivasa Ramanujan ranks 1. After him are Brahmagupta (598), Bhāskara II (1114), Augustus De Morgan (1806), S. R. Ranganathan (1892), Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), Bhāskara I (600), Jai Singh II (1688), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940).
1887 - 1920
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 1
598 - 670
HPI: 68.55
Rank: 2
1114 - 1185
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 3
1806 - 1871
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 4
1892 - 1972
HPI: 58.87
Rank: 5
1350 - 1425
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 6
600 - 680
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 7
1688 - 1743
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 8
1444 - 1544
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 9
1944 - Present
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 10
1905 - 1986
HPI: 47.25
Rank: 11
1940 - Present
HPI: 43.42
Rank: 12