Ramanujan's constant
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Ramanujan's constant is the transcendental number 
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Its value is extraordinarily close to an integer:
It was discovered in 1859 by the mathematician Charles Hermite.[2] In a 1975 April Fool article in Scientific American magazine [3], columnist Martin Gardner made the (hoax) claim that the number was in fact an integer, and that the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan had predicted it — hence its name.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RamanujanConstant.html
- ^ Barrow, John D (2002). The Constants of Nature. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-06135-6.
- ^ Gardner, Martin (April 1975). "Mathematical Games". Scientific American 232 (4): 127.
[edit] External links
- Ramanujan's Constant And Its Cousins
- Ramanujan's Constant from Wolfram MathWorld
