THE QUINTESSENTIAL NUMBER 24

K. Srinivasa . Rao; T. P. . Srinivasan; Satya Prakash Singh; Chandan Kumar Singh

doi:10.56827/JRSMMS.2022.1001.16

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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56827/JRSMMS.2022.1001.16

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’ˆetre for its occurrence in the definition of the τ -function of Ramanujan.