Srinivasa Ramanujan: His Life, Legacy, and Mathematical Influence

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KRISHNASWAMI ALLADI is professor of mathematics at the University of Florida where he was department chairman during 19982008. He received his PhD from the University of California Los Angeles in 1978. His research covers many areas of number theory such as analytic number theory diophantine approximations sieve methods probabilistic number theory and the theory of partitions and q-hypergeometric series. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Ramanujan Journal (Springer) Founder and Editor of the book series Developments in Mathematics (Springer) and Chair of the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize Committee. He was an Associate Editor of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. In 2012 he was inducted as an Inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society for his distinguished contributions. In recognition of his research accomplishments and service to the profession he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Honoris Causa) by SASTRA University in September 2022.GEORGE ANDREWS received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. He was Hans Rademachers last student. He is the Atherton Professor of Mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Parma (Italy) the University of Florida the University of Waterloo (Canada) SASTRA University (India) and the University of Illinois. He was awarded an honorary professorship at Nankai University (China). He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983. In 2022 the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications presented him with the Euler Medal. He was President of the American Mathematical Society from 20092011. In 1976 while visiting the Wren Library of Trinity College Cambridge he had the good fortune to find the manuscript now called Ramanujans Lost Notebook. He and Bruce Berndt collaborated on a five volume explication of the unproven identities in this masterpiece.BRUCE BERNDT received an A.B. degree in 1961 from Albion College and a PhD in 1966 at the University of Wisconsin where his primary mentors were Rod Smart (thesis advisor) Marvin Knopp and Richard Askey. He held a one-year postdoctoral position at the University of Glasgow where his mentor was Robert Rankin. In 1967 Berndt joined the faculty at the University of Illinois where he taught for 52 years before retiring in 2019. While at Illinois he served as the thesis advisor for 37 students; he also mentored about ten postdocs. Since 1974 Berndt has devoted the bulk of his research to explicating and proving claims from Ramanujans notebooks and his lost notebook. He published five books on Ramanujans Notebooks (Springer) for which he received the Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition from the American Mathematical Society. Furthermore he and George Andrews published five books on Ramanujans Lost Notebook (Springer). Altogether Berndt has authored co-authored and co-edited 30 books. He received the Ford Award (twice) and the Allendorfer Award for papers published with the Mathematical Association of America. Berndt is the founding editor of International Journal of Number Theory. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 19981999.FRANK GARVAN received his B.Sc.(Hons) and DipEd. from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia. After he taught high school in inner city Sydney and Outback NSW he completed a M.Sc.(research) degree at UNSW under the supervision of Mike Hirschhorn. From 19831986 he did a PhD under the supervision of George Andrews at the Pennsylvania State University. He then was a post-doc at the University of Wisconsin (mentor Richard Askey) the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (mentor Dennis Stanton) Macquarie University (mentor John Loxton) and Dalhousie University (mentors Jon and Peter Borwein). Since 2000 he has been a full professor at the University of Florida. His interests include q-series partitions mock theta functions and symbolic computation. He has written books on the symbolic software MAPLE and written numerous public packages to aid q-series research. He is Managing Editor of The Ramanujan Journal. He has been privileged to organize several number theory conferences in Florida together with their conference proceedings. In 2022 he was honored to be the principal lecturer for the CBMS Conference Ramanujans Partition Congruences Mock Theta Functions and Beyond at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.KEN ONO is the STEM Advisor to the Provost and the Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Shannon Center for Advanced Studies. He earned his PhD in mathematics from UCLA in 1993 and he earned a BA in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1989. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship David and Lucile Packard Fellowship Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship and an NSF CAREER Award. In 2000 he received a Presidential Early Career Award from Bill Clinton at a ceremony at the White House. In 2005 he was named the National Science Foundation Directors Distinguished Teaching Scholar the highest honor awarded by NSF for excellence in research and teaching. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and he is the recipient of the 2023 University of Chicago Alumni Medal for Professional Achievement. He is the Founding Director of the Spirit of Ramanujan Global STEM Talent Search which supports emerging engineers mathematicians and scientists who lack traditional institutional support through financial grants and mentorship opportunities. He was an Associate Producer of the film The Man Who Knew Infinity which starred Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons.PETER PAULE earned his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1983 (advisor: Johann Cigler). He was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship (198486 University of Bayreuth host: Adalbert Kerber). In 2005 he was appointed full professor as successor to Bruno Buchberger; from 2009 to 2023 he was director of the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) of the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU). From 2003 to 2008 he was Speaker of the Special Research Program Numerical and Symbolic Scientific Computing from 2008 to 2017 director of the Doctoral Program Computational Mathematics both excellence programs at JKU sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Paule was a member of the original editorial committee for the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) project in existence from the mid-1990s to the mid-2010s. He is adjunct professor at the Center for Applied Mathematics Tianjin University. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.OLE WARNAAR completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1993 under the guidance of Bernard Nienhuis and currently holds the position of Chair and Professor of Pure Mathematics at The University of Queensland Australia. His research interests include algebraic combinatorics basic and elliptic hypergeometric series q-series and partition theory representation theory and special functions. Warnaar has held a Research Fellowship of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) from 1997 to 2000 was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2008 and was awarded the George Szekeres Medal of the Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS) in 2020. He served as President of AustMS in 20212022. Warnaar has a long-standing involvement with Australian as well as international mathematics competitions and chaired the organizing committee of the Simon Marais Mathematics Competition (SMMC) from 2019 till 2022.AE JA YEE is professor of mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University. She received her PhD from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2000. Her research covers areas of combinatorics and number theory in particular the theory of partitions and q-hypergeometric series. She is a managing editor of International Journal of Number Theory and an associate editor of Discrete Mathematics. She also serves on the editorial boards of The Ramanujan Journal and Combinatory Theory.