Eight Ramanujan posts Posted on 14 March 2017 by John Eight short, accessible blog posts based on the work of the intriguing mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan: Ramanujan series for computing π Ramanujan π approximation Ramanujan’s nested radical Ramanujan approximation for circumference of an ellipse Ramanujan’s most beautiful identity Ramanujan’s factorial approximation Sums of fourth powers Algorithm used for world record pi calculations