THE QUINTESSENTIAL NUMBER 24

Authors

  • K. Srinivasa Rao (Former Senior Professor, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai - 600113, INDIA)
  • T. P. Srinivasan (Former Professor of Physics, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai - 625021, INDIA)
  • Satya Prakash Singh (Department of Mathematics, TDPG College, Jaunpur - 222002 (U.P.), INDIA)
  • Chandan Kumar Singh (Department of Mathematics, TDPG College, Jaunpur - 222002 (U.P.), INDIA)

Keywords:

Aryabhatia, Ashoka chakra, cube, fundamental theorem of Algebra, Gayatri mantra, Greek alphabet, Hardy-Ramanujan theorem, Highly Composite Numbers, hypergeometric functions, Kummer solutions of Gauss ODE, prime numbers, Surya Sidhanta, symmetries, tau-function, tetrahedral symmetries.

Abstract

In this article, the authors refer to the interesting nature and properties of the number 24 and its occurrence and relevance in different contexts and conjecture that it is the raison d'être for its occurrence in the definition of the $\tau$-function of Ramanujan.

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Published

2023-06-08

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 01 (2022): Journal of Ramanujan Society of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences

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