| Name(s) |
SRINIVASA
Iyengar RAMANUJAN |
| Date of
Birth |
December 22, 1887 (Erode, Tamil Nadu, India)
This day is observed as NATIONAL MATHEMATICS DAY. |
| Date of
Death |
April 26, 1920 (died of
illness, malnutrition, and liver infection) |
|
Identity |
A Mathematics Genius of India without any
formal Education. |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
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October 01, 1892: He was enrolled at
the local school.
- July 14, 1909: He
was married to a
ten-year-old bride, Srimathi Janaki.
- October 13, 1918: He became the first Indian to be
elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
- December 2011: In
recognition of his contribution to mathematics, the
Government of India declared Ramanujan's birthday (22
December) as
NATIONAL MATHEMATICS DAY.
- 2012: The year 2012 was
declared by the Govt. of India as the NATIONAL
MATHEMATICS YEAR.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He was an
autodidact, with almost no
formal training in pure mathematics.
- His talent level has been considered to be in the same
league as legendary mathematicians such as Euler, Gauss,
Newton and Archimedes.
- He first encountered formal mathematics at age 10. He
demonstrated a natural ability, and was given
books on advanced trigonometry written by S. L. Loney, which he
had mastered by age 12, and even discovered theorems of his own.
- He demonstrated unusual mathematical skills at school, winning
several accolades and awards.
- By the age of 17, he conducted his own mathematical
research on Bernoulli numbers and the Euler–Mascheroni constant.
- English mathematician G.H. Hardy had recognized the unusual
brilliance of his work, and subsequently invited
Ramanujan to visit and work with him at Cambridge.
- During his short lifetime, he independently
compiled
nearly 3900 results; mostly identities and equations.
- Nearly
all his claims have now been proven correct.
- He stated results that were both
original and highly
unconventional, such as the Ramanujan prime
and the Ramanujan theta function, and these
have inspired a vast amount of further research.
- The
Ramanujan Journal, an international publication,
was launched to publish work in all areas of mathematics
influenced by his work.
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