THE QUINTESSENTIAL NUMBER 24

Print ISSN: 2319-1023 | Online ISSN: 2582-5461 | Total Downloads : 132

Volume : 10 , Issue : 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56827/JRSMMS.2022.1001.16
Author :
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)

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.

Keywords and Phrases

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.

A.M.S. subject classification

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