Sculptured head of Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan
Date
1983
Sitter
Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan (1887 - 1920, Indian) , Mathematician
Creator
Paul Theodore Granlund (1925 - 2003, American) , Sculptor
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (sculpture): 410mm
width (sculpture): 267mm
depth (sculpture): 265mm
height (pedestal): 148mm
width (pedestal): 178mm
depth (pedestal): 178mm
width (sculpture): 267mm
depth (sculpture): 265mm
height (pedestal): 148mm
width (pedestal): 178mm
depth (pedestal): 178mm
Subject
Description
Bust of Srinivasa Ramanujan, head and partial shoulders showing shirt and the collar of a jacket. He is facing forward and his hair is styled in right parting as viewed. On a bronze pedestal.
Plaque on pedestal inscribed ‘SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN FRS BY PAUL T. GRANLUND PRESENTED BY SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR FRS 11th MAY 1994.’
Incised on the reverse 'MATHEMATICIAN SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN 1887-1920. P.T.GRANLUND 1983 1/[?]'
Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan (1887-1920) was an Indian mathematician, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918.
Plaque on pedestal inscribed ‘SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN FRS BY PAUL T. GRANLUND PRESENTED BY SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR FRS 11th MAY 1994.’
Incised on the reverse 'MATHEMATICIAN SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN 1887-1920. P.T.GRANLUND 1983 1/[?]'
Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan (1887-1920) was an Indian mathematician, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918.
Object history
Provenance: Presented to the Society by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar FRS, 1994
The donation is recorded in the Royal Society Minutes of Council, minute 34, meeting 19 May 1994 p.22. [CMO/80] and also Royal Society Minutes of Council, minute 51, meeting 13 February 1992 p.468 [CMO/79].
Copies and cast: One of four busts originally commissioned by Richard Askey. An additional five made since the original commission as recorded in the paper On Ramanujan’s Bust by S Chandrasekhar, F.R.S. Notes and Records of the Royal Society London, volume 49, page 153-157.
The donation is recorded in the Royal Society Minutes of Council, minute 34, meeting 19 May 1994 p.22. [CMO/80] and also Royal Society Minutes of Council, minute 51, meeting 13 February 1992 p.468 [CMO/79].
Copies and cast: One of four busts originally commissioned by Richard Askey. An additional five made since the original commission as recorded in the paper On Ramanujan’s Bust by S Chandrasekhar, F.R.S. Notes and Records of the Royal Society London, volume 49, page 153-157.
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