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The year 1987 was the centenary of Ramanujan’s birth. He died in 1920 Had he not died so young, his presence in modern mathematics might be more immediately felt. Had he lived to have access to powerful algebraic manipulation software, such as MACSYMA, who knows how much more spectacular his already astonishing career might have been.
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Borwein, J.M., Borwein, P.B., Bailey, D.H. (2004). Ramanujan, Modular Equations, and Approximations to Pi or How to Compute One Billion Digits of Pi. In: Pi: A Source Book. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4217-6_64
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