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CD ROMs on the Life
and Work of Srinivasa Ramanujan
The Institute of Mathematical
Sciences (IMSc), Chennai and C-DAC's National Multimedia
Resource Centre (NMRC), Pune, were sponsored by the
Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government
of India, to produce two CD ROMs on the Life and Work
of the Indian Mathematical Genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan
(1887-1920).
Contents of CD Part
I:
 CD
ROM, Part I, contains the biographical details of Srinivasa
Ramanujan in multimedia format along with the scanned
contents of his original Notebooks and Collected Papers.
It also contains video interviews of eminent mathematicians
and biographical articles on Ramanujan. The following
are the contents:
- Biographical Details (with narration
and images )
- Original Notebooks of Ramanujan
- Collected Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 59 Questions and Answers of Ramanujan
- Biographical Articles
- Interviews of Renowned Mathematicians
 The
CD ROM has a collection of rare photographs (more than
150), video clips of places of interest like the house
of Ramanujan (now a Museum) in Kumbakonam and Namakkal.
A voiceover narrates the biographical contents of the
CD ROM. This has been designed to inspire students and
create an interest in even non-mathematicians to generate
an interest in learning about the work of Ramanujan.
Contents of CD Part
II:
CD ROM, Part II, besides
containing the original Notebooks of Ramanujan and his
Collected Papers, also features the five volume work
of Bruce C. Berndt entitled: "Ramanujan's Notebooks".
Now it is possible to access both the original entries
in the Notebooks and the work of Berndt on each one
of them. The following are the contents:
- Bruce C. Berndt's "Ramanujan's
Notebooks", Part I to V, published by Springer-Verlag
- Original Notebooks of Ramanujan
- Collected Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 59 Questions and Answers of Ramanujan
- Biographical articles
- Interviews of Renowned Mathematicians
 Together,
the two CD ROMs attempt to provide an encyclopedic source
for information on the life of Ramanujan and his invaluable
work contained in his Notebooks and in his Collected
Papers, which continue to be a source of inspiration
to generations of mathematicians.
Minimum System Requirements:
- Multimedia PC Pentium IV and above,
Minimum 128 MB RAM,
- 10MB Free Hard Disk Space,
- Microsoft Windows 2000/NT/XP, Internet
Explorer 5.0 and above,
- Quick Time 5.0 and above
- Running time is user dependent.
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