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National Mathematics Day 2021: India celebrates National Mathematics Day on December 22 every year. The day marks the birth anniversary of famous mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. In 2012, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Declared the date as Here is some information about Ramanujan's life and work that students can use in their Mathematics day speech and essay: • Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on December 22, 1887 at Erode, Tamil Nadu in a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family. • Ramanujan studied at the Government College in Kumbakonam in 1903. In college, he failed exams due to his negligence for non-mathematical subjects. • In 1912, Ramanujan started working as a clerk in the Madras Port Trust. It is in this place his genius was recognized by a colleague who was also a mathematician. The colleague referred Ramanujan to Professor GH Hardy of Trinity College, Cambridge University. • Ramanujan joined Trinity College a few months before World War I began. In 1916, he received a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree. He was elected to the London Mathematical Society in 1917. • Next year, he was elected a Fellow of the prestigious Royal Society for his research on Elliptic Functions and theory of numbers. • In the same year, in October, he became the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College. • Ramanujan returned to India in 1919. A year later, he breathed his last at the age of 32. • The 2015 movie 'The Man Who Knew Infinity' was released based on Srinivasa Ramanujan's biog...

The papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan, Add.Ms.a.94, are available to view through Srinivasa Aiyanger Ramanujan was born in Erode, India in 1887. He showed early mathematical ability which developed rapidly during his teenage years. He published his first paper in 1911 and encouraged by correspondence with G. H. Hardy at Trinity College, he obtained a research scholarship at the University of Madras. He came to England in 1914 to begin a productive collaboration with Hardy. Ramanujan was particularly prolific in the field of number theory. In 1918 he became a fellow of the Royal Society and was subsequently offered a fellowship at Trinity College. He was, however, beset by ill-health and returned to India in 1919. He died in 1920. • • • • • • • • • • • • Back • Back • • • • • • • • • • Back • • • • • • • Back • • • • • • • • Back • • • Back • • • • • • • • • Back • • • • Back • • • • • Accommodation Handbook • • • • • • • Back • • • • • • • • • Back • • • • • Back • Back • • • Back • • • • • • • Back • • • • Back • • • • • • • • Back • • Back • • • • • • • • • • Back • Back • • • • • • • • • Back • • • • • • • • • • Back • • • • • • • • Back • • Back • • • Back • • • • • • • • Back • • • • Back • • • • • • • • Back • • • • Back • Back • • • • • Back • • • • • • • • Back • Back • • • • • • • • Back • Back • • • • • • Back • • Back • • • • • • Back • • • • Back • Back • • • • Back • Contact us × Close Panel This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate t...

Lived 1887 – 1920. Srinivasa Ramanujan was a largely self-taught pure mathematician. Hindered by poverty and ill-health, his highly original work has considerably enriched number theory. More recently his discoveries have been applied to physics, where his theta function lies at the heart of string theory. Advertisements Beginnings Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on December 22, 1887 in the town of Erode, in Tamil Nadu, in the south east of India. His father was K. Srinivasa Iyengar, an accounting clerk for a clothing merchant. His mother was Komalatammal, who earned a small amount of money each month as a singer at the local temple. His family were Brahmins, the Hindu caste of priests and scholars. His mother ensured the boy was in tune with Brahmin traditions and culture. Although his family were high caste, they were very poor. Ramanujan’s parents moved around a lot, and he attended a variety of different elementary schools. Early Mathematics At age 10, Ramanujan was the top student in his district and he started high school at the Kumbakonam Town High School. Looking at the mathematics books in his school’s library, he quickly found his vocation. By age 12, he had begun serious self-study of mathematics, working through cubic equations and arithmetic and geometric series. He invented his own method of solving quartic equations. As Ramanujan’s mathematical knowledge developed, his main source of inspiration and expertise became Synopsis of elementary results in pure mathem...

• Full Name: Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan • Known For: Prolific mathematician • Parents’ Names: K. Srinivasa Aiyangar, Komalatammal • Born: December 22, 1887 in Erode, India • Died: April 26, 1920 at age 32 in Kumbakonam, India • Spouse: Janakiammal • Interesting Fact: Ramanujan's life is depicted in a book published in 1991 and a 2015 biographical film, both titled "The Man Who Knew Infinity." Early Life and Education Ramanujan was born on December 22, 1887, in Erode, a city in southern India. His father, K. Srinivasa Aiyangar, was an accountant, and his mother Komalatammal was the daughter of a city official. Though Ramanujan’s family was of the However, it was G.S. Carr’s book, "A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure Mathematics," which reportedly spurred Ramanujan to become obsessed with the subject. Having no access to other books, Ramanujan taught himself mathematics using Carr’s book, whose topics included integral calculus and power series calculations. This concise book would have an unfortunate impact on the way Ramanujan wrote down his mathematical results later, as his writings included too few details for many people to understand how he arrived at his results. Ramanujan was so interested in studying mathematics that his formal education effectively came to a standstill. At the age of 16, Ramanujan matriculated at the Government College in Kumbakonam on a scholarship, but lost his scholarship the next year because he had neglected his other studies. He then ...

“In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be” - ‘The Noble Nature,’ Ben Jonson In April 1984, when he read the letter thanking him for contributing to a bronze bust in memory of the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, Takashi Ono was moved to tears. The letter was from Janaki Ammal, Ramanujan’s wife. From first hearing about Ramanujan in Tokyo in 1955 from the mathematician Andre Weil and having Ramanujan as an inspiration and then to being one of the few mathematicians in the world to fulfil the wish of Janaki Ammal that a statue of her husband be made, life had come a full circle for Takashi. There was one more connection that Takashi had with Ramanujan: Takashi’s son Ken Ono made key contributions to ‘mock theta functions’ in early 2000s, a topic that Ramanujan had worked on in the last few months before his death in April 1920. In the mathematical community, it was no surprise that Ramanujan’s work was being expanded actively eight decades after his demise: many of Ramanujan’s findings anticipated research areas by many years. Research at a feverish pitch Ramanujan, born on December 22, 1887 was an autodidact who specialised in pure mathematics. While he excelled in mathematics, he neglected other subjects and could not complete his pre-university course. By 1908 he gave up studies, but not his research in mathematics. He struggled in poverty until in 1910, a benefactor, Ramachandra Rao, district collector of Nellore, provided hi...

On January 16, 1913, a letter revealed a genius of mathematics. The missive came from Madras, a city – now known as Chennai – located in the south of India. The sender was a young 26-year-old clerk at the customs port, with a salary of £20 a year, enclosing nine sheets of formulas, incomprehensible at first sight. “Dear Sir, I have no University education but I have undergone the ordinary school course. I have made special investigation of divergent series in general and the results I get are termed by the local mathematicians as startling,” began the writing signed by S. Ramanujan. A century later, the legacy of this Indian genius continues to influence mathematics, physics or computation. The Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons The renowned It contained 120 formulas among which he identified one for knowing how many prime numbers there are between 1 and a certain number, and others that allowed one to calculate quickly the infinite decimals of the number pi. In some cases, Ramanujan had unwittingly arrived at conclusions already reached by western mathematicians, such as one of Bauer’s formulas for the decimals of pi, but many other formulas were entirely new. The formulas came alone, isolated, without formal demonstrations or statements. This lack of methodology almost led Hardy to throw the letter into the rubbish. However, in the end he concluded that: “They must be true because, if not, no one would have had the imagination to invent t...