The Ramanujan Pages
by Titus Piezas III
(NEW!)  If you like mathematical identities, check out  "A Collection of Algebraic Identities" by this author.
See also: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/Piezas.html
Hello and welcome to our little fox hole.

Here you will find articles written by my owner on topics that
Ramanujan worked on, topics my owner found really fascinating and which he hopes you would, too.

So read a sample and enjoy! For number theory, please jump to
Page 9.
I. Ramanujan's Constant (e^(Pi*sqrt(163))) and Its Cousins
II. On Keen Approximations
III. Pi Formulas, Ramanujan, and the Baby Monster Group
IV. On Ramanujan's Other Pi Formulas
V. The k-function: Extending Ramanujan's Dedekind Eta Quotients (Part 1)
VI. The k-function: Continued Fractions and Platonic Solids (Part 2)
VII. Ramanujan's Cubic Continued Fraction (And Others)
VIII. The Degen-Graves-Cayley Eight-Square Identity
IX. Ramanujan and The Cubic Equation 3^3+4^3+5^3 = 6^3
IXb. The Equation q1^3+q2^3+q3^3+q4^3 = (a^3+b^3+c^3+d^3)q5^3
X. Ramanujan and The Quartic Equation 2^4+2^4+3^4+4^4+4^4 = 5^4
XI. Euler's Extended Conjecture and a^k+b^k+c^k = d^k for k > 4
XII. Timeline of Euler's Extended Conjecture
XIII. Taxicab Numbers & Fermat Surface a^k+b^k = c^k+d^k for k = 4, 6, 8
XIV. Ramanujan and Fifth Power Identities
XV. Binary Quadratic Forms as Equal Sums of Like Powers
XVI. Binary Quadratic Forms as Arnold's Perfect Forms
XVII. Curious Properties of j-Function Formulas
If you also like solvable equations (cubics, quartics, quintics, etc.) may I suggest the
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About the author:

     An early thirty-something who teaches philosophy in university.  Also interested in the sciences and mathematics, especially number theory.  (Though for the ancient Greeks all these fields of knowledge were one and the same.)
     Likes to travel.  Been to Canada, France, Australia, South Africa, China, HongKong, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines.
     Also likes to read books and watch movies.  (They are, after all, just other ways to travel.)

tpiezasIII@gmail.com -> (remove "III" for email)
This webpage was born Mar. 31, 2005.