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Srinivasa Ramanujan

Indian mathematician1887 to 1920

Wikidata names G.H. Hardy and John Edensor Littlewood as doctoral advisors. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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G.H. Hardy
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John Edensor Littlewood

Teachers and mentors1

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a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
John Edensor Littlewood

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataG.H. Hardystated by WikidataJohn Edensor Littlewood
2 steps up
stated by WikidataAugustus Edward Hough Lovestated by WikidataE. T. Whittakerstated by WikidataErnest Barnes
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stated by WikidataAndrew Forsythstated by WikidataGeorge Howard Darwinstated by WikidataW. W. Rouse Ball
4 steps up
stated by WikidataArthur Cayleystated by WikidataEdward Routh

Theses

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doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career7

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1898 to 1904
Town Higher Secondary School
studied
1904 to 1905
Government Arts College, Kumbakonam
studied
1906 to 1907
Pachaiyappa's College
studied
1912 to 1914
Chennai Port
worked
1914 to 1916
Trinity College
studied
1916 to 1919
Trinity College
worked
undated
University of Cambridge
studied

At a glance

known as: mathematician, accountant
fields: combinatorics, number theory, mathematician
awards: Fellow of the Royal Society, 1918, Fellow of Trinity College, 1918
member of: Royal Society of London
notable works: Landau–Ramanujan constant, Ramanujan theta function, Rogers–Ramanujan identities, Ramanujan–Soldner constant, taxicab number, Ramanujan's sum, Ramanujan–Nagell equation, Ramanujan prime, Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture, Ramanujan summation, Hardy–Ramanujan theorem, Ramanujan graph, Rogers–Ramanujan continued fraction, Ramanujan–Sato series, tau-function, Ramanujan's congruences, Ramanujan's ternary quadratic form, Ramanujan's master theorem, Ramanujan's constant
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Elsewhere9

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaSrinivasa Ramanujan
stated by WikidataWikidataQ83163
stated by WikidataVIAF27132864
stated by WikidataGND118748955
stated by WikidataIdRef027908895
stated by WikidataISNI0000000121252846

papers

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stated by WikidataSemantic Scholar46608662

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project91561

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@misc{academicancestry_Q83163,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Srinivasa Ramanujan: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q83163},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Srinivasa Ramanujan: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q83163