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

UNDER CONSTRUCTIONS, NOT YET PUBLIC

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. Here is the conference picture

In this class project, every student (except the editor, Sarah Magno), is in charge of researching five of the participants in that historic confrence (the assignment are coordinated by Sarah Magno). Every student, for each of the five particiapants he or she is in charge of, should write a mini-biographical essay, using the internet, and if the persons are still alive, it would be great if they can conduct a short (or not so short, it is up to you and the person interviewed) about their mathematical interests, and how it is related to Ramanujan. This can be done via email, or even, if the persons are willing (after you got their consent via email), to conduct an interview via phone or skype.

In addition, for each participant, you should list the year of birth (if publictly known), or better still, the exact birthdate, and year of death (if the person passed away, and better still, the exact date). the top of the essay should contain the following list of mumbers (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 these essays shouls also have the link to that participant's homepage (if it exists) and/or the wikipedia page (if it exists).

The MathSciNet database is not free, but is freely available to Rutgers students and faculty. You just search for "Rutgers MathSciNet", and then use your netid login to enter it. The Mathematical Genealogy webisite is free.

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

See

History of Math (Fall 2021) class web-page