Ramanujan's Life, His Earlier Notebooks and His Lost Notebook

Ramanujan was born in southern India in 1887 and died there in 1920 atthe age of 32. He had only one year of college, but his mathematicaldiscoveries, made mostly in isolation, have made him one of the 20th and21st centuries' most influential mathematicians. An accountof Ramanujan's life will be presented. Most of Ramanujan'smathematical discoveries were recorded without proofs innotebooks, and a description and history of these notebooks willbe provided. In 1976, George Andrews found Ramanujan's ``lostnotebook'' in the library at Trinity College, Cambridge. A historyand description of this lost notebook will also be provided. Thelecture will be accompanied by photographs of Ramanujan, his home, his school, his notebooks, and those influential in his life, including his mother and wife Janaki.