From Ramanujan to renormalization: the art of doing away with divergences and arriving at physical results
From Ramanujan to renormalization: the art of doing away with divergences and arriving at physical results
A century ago Srinivasa Ramanujan --- the great self-taught Indian genius of mathematics --- died, shortly after returning from Cambridge, UK, where he had collaborated with Godfrey Hardy. Ramanujan contributed numerous outstanding results to different branches of mathematics, like analysis and number theory, with a focus on special functions and …