Scientists create Ramanujan Machine: what’s it for, why name it after him? | Explained News, The Indian Express

Scientists create Ramanujan Machine: what’s it for, why name it after him? | Explained News, The Indian Express

Written by Kabir Firaque |New Delhi |Published: July 18, 2019 12:34:08 am

Scientists create Ramanujan Machine: what’s it for, why name it after him?

Ramanujan’s conjectures have been proved by others; can humans prove the conjectures from the ‘machine’?

Throughout his life, Ramanujan came up with novel equations and identities —including equations leading to the value of pi — and it was usually left to formally trained mathematicians to prove these.

SCIENTISTS FROM Technion — Israel Institute of Technology have developed a concept they have named the Ramanujan Machine, after the Indian mathematician. It is not really a machine but an algorithm, and performs a very unconventional function.