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- He 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.
- 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"
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