Introduction to "What Happened to The Participants of the Ramanujan Centenary Conference (June 1-5, 1987)?:

This was a class project by Dr. Z.'s Math History Class (Fall 2021)

Coordinating Editor: Sarah Magno

In 1987, the 100th birthday of the Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan was celebrated in a historic conference held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

In this class project, every student (except the editor, Sarah Magno), was in charge of researching five of the participants in that historic conference (the assignments were coordinated by Sarah Magno). Every student, for each of the five participants he or she were in charge of, wrote a mini-biographical essay, using the internet, and if the persons were still alive, they sometimes conducted a short (or not so short, it was up to you and the person interviewed) about their mathematical interests, and how they are related to Ramanujan. This was done via email, or even, by phone or skype.

In addition, for each participant, the student in charge found out the year of birth (if publicly known), or better still, the exact birthdate, and year of death (if the person passed away, and if available, the exact date). The top of the essay contains the following list of numbers (in that order):

[Number of Publications listed in MathSciNet, Number of Citations listed in MathSciNet, Year of First Publication, Year of Last listed publication, Erdos Number, Zeilberger Number, Number of PhD students]

The beginning of each of each essay also has a link to that participant's homepage (if it exists) and/or the wikipedia page (if it exists).

To gather that information, the students used The MathSciNet database and The Mathematical Genealogy website.

For example, for the participant "Doron Zeilberger" (b. July 2, 1950), the list is

[222,2870,1971,2021,2,0,32], see under "Doron Zeilberger" below


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