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Sr. no. Title Page no.

1 Introduction 5

2 Name Of Project 6

3 Biography of Srinivas Ramanujan 7-16

4 Inventions of Srinivas Ramanujan 16-17

5 Ramanujan’s Contribution In Mathematics 18-22

6 Awards received by Ramanujan 23

7 Quate of Srinivas Ramanujan 24

8 History of National Mathematica Day 24-25

9 Unknown facts about Srinivas Ramanujan 27-28

10 Reference 29

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  Name Of Project 

The Great Mathematician

Srinivas Ramanujan

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 INTRODUCTION

In this project we have to learn about Great mathematician and

scientist Sriniva Ramanujan. Srinivas Ramanujan was born on 22 December
1887.They are belongs to middle class family, and they died on 26 April 1920.
Because of there contribution in mathematics we can celebrate National
Mathematics Day on their Birth Day.

In this project we had covered their biography, their inventions,

awards, their contribution in mathematics and their unknown facts.

Let us start firstly, with biography of Srinivas Ramanujan.

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BIOGRAPHY OF SRINIVAS RAMANUJAN

 Name : Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan

 Born : 22 December 1887

 Died : 26 April 1920

 Signature :
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 Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar was an Indian mathematician who lived during the
British rule India.Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made
substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number of theory , infinite series, and
continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered
unsolvable. Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation:
according to Hans Eysenck "He tried to interest the leading professional mathematicians in
his work, but failed for the most part. What he had to show them was too novel, too
unfamiliar, and additionally presented in unusual ways; they could not be bothered".
Seeking mathematicians who could better understand his work, in 1913 he began a postal
correspondence with the English mathematician G. H. Hardy at the University of Cambridge,
England. Recognising Ramanujan's work as extraordinary, Hardy arranged for him to travel
to Cambridge. In his notes, Hardy commented that Ramanujan had produced
groundbreaking new theorems, including some that "defeated me completely; I had never
seen anything in the least like them before", and some recently proven but highly advanced
results.

During his short life, Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3,900 results
(mostly identities and equations. Many were completely novel; his original and highly
unconventional results, such as the Ramanujan prime, the Ramanujan theta function,
partition formulae and mock theta functions, have opened entire new areas of work and
inspired a vast amount of further research.] Of his thousands of results, all but a dozen or
two have now been proven correct. The Ramanujan Journal, a scientific journal, was
established to publish work in all areas of mathematics influenced by Ramanujan, and his
notebooks—containing summaries of his published and unpublished results—have been
analysed and studied for decades since his death as a source of new mathematical ideas. As
late as 2012, researchers continued to discover that mere comments in his writings about
"simple properties" and "similar outputs" for certain findings were themselves profound
and subtle number theory results that remained unsuspected until nearly a century after his
death. He became one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society and only the second
Indian member, and the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Of
his original letters, Hardy stated that a single look was enough to show they could have
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been written only by a mathematician of the highest calibre, comparing Ramanujan to

mathematical geniuses such as Euler and Jacobi.

In 1919, ill health—now believed to have been hepatic amoebiasis (a complication

from episodes of dysentery many years previously)—compelled Ramanujan's return to India,
where he died in 1920 at the age of 32. His last letters to Hardy, written in January 1920,
show that he was still continuing to produce new mathematical ideas and theorems. His "lost
notebook", containing discoveries from the last year of his life, caused great excitement
among mathematicians when it was rediscovered in 1976.

A deeply religious Hindu. Ramanujan credited his substantial mathematical

capacities to divinity, and said the mathematical knowledge he displayed was revealed to him
by his family goddess Namagiri Thayar. He once said, "An equation for me has no meaning
unless it expresses a thought of God.

 Early Life

Ramanujan (literally, "younger brother of Rama", a Hindu deity) was born on

22 December 1887 into a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family in Erode, Madras Presidency
(now Tamil Nadu, India), at the residence of his maternal grandparents. His father,
Kuppuswamy Srinivasa Iyengar, originally from Thanjavur district, worked as a clerk
in a sari shop. His mother, Komalatammal, was a housewife and sang at a local
temple. They lived in a small traditional home on Sarangapani Sannidhi Street in the
town of Kumbakonam.The family home is now a museum. When Ramanujan was a
year and a half old, his mother gave birth to a son, Sadagopan, who died less than
three months later. In December 1889 Ramanujan contracted smallpox, but recovered,
unlike the 4,000 others who died in a bad year in the Thanjavur district around this
time. He moved with his mother to her parents' house in Kanchipuram, near Madras
(now Chennai). His mother gave birth to two more children, in 1891 and 1894, both
of whom died before their first birthdays.
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Ramanujan's birthplace on 18 Alahiri Street, Erode, now in Tamil Nadu

On 1 October 1892 Ramanujan was enrolled at the local school. After his
maternal grandfather lost his job as a court official in Kanchipuram,Ramanujan and his
mother moved back to Kumbakonam and he was enrolled in Kangayan Primary School.
When his paternal grandfather died, he was sent back to his maternal grandparents, then
living in Madras. He did not like school in Madras, and tried to avoid attending. His family
enlisted a local constable to make sure he attended school. Within six months, Ramanujan
was back in Kumbakonam.
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 Ramanujan's home on Sarangapani Sannidhi Street, Kumbakonam

Since Ramanujan's father was at work most of the day, his mother took care of the
boy, and they had a close relationship. From her he learned about tradition and puranas, to
sing religious songs, to attend pujas at the temple, and to maintain particular eating
habits—all part of Brahmin culture. At Kangayan Primary School Ramanujan performed well.
Just before turning 10, in November 1897, he passed his primary examinations in English,
Tamil, geography and arithmetic with the best scores in the district. That year Ramanujan
entered Town Higher Secondary School, where he encountered formal mathematics for the
first time.

A child prodigy by age 11, he had exhausted the mathematical knowledge of two
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college students who were lodgers at his home. He was later lent a book written by S. L.
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Loney on advanced trigonometry. He mastered this by the age of 13 while discovering

sophisticated theorems on his own. By 14 he received merit certificates and academic
awards that continued throughout his school career, and he assisted the school in the
logistics of assigning its 1,200 students (each with differing needs) to its approximately 35
teachers. He completed mathematical exams in half the allotted time, and showed a
familiarity with geometry and infinite series. Ramanujan was shown how to solve cubic
equations in 1902; he developed his own method to solve the quartic. The following year he
tried to solve the quintic, not knowing that it could not be solved by radicals.

In 1903, when he was 16, Ramanujan obtained from a friend a library copy of A
Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics, G. S. Carr's collection of
5,000 theorems.Ramanujan reportedly studied the contents of the book in detail. The book
is generally acknowledged as a key element in awakening his genius.The next year
Ramanujan independently developed and investigated the Bernoulli numbers and calculated
the Euler–Mascheroni constant up to 15 decimal places. His peers at the time said they
"rarely understood him" and "stood in respectful awe" of him.

When he graduated from Town Higher Secondary School in 1904, Ramanujan was
awarded the K. Ranganatha Rao prize for mathematics by the school's headmaster,
Krishnaswami Iyer. Iyer introduced Ramanujan as an outstanding student who deserved
scores higher than the maximum. He received a scholarship to study at Government Arts
College Kumbakonam, but was so intent on mathematics that he could not focus on any other
subjects and failed most of them, losing his scholarship in the process. In August 1905
Ramanujan ran away from home, heading towards Visakhapatnam, and stayed in
Rajahmundry for about a month He later enrolled at Pachaiyappa's College in Madras. There
he passed in mathematics, choosing only to attempt questions that appealed to him and
leaving the rest unanswered, but performed poorly in other subjects, such as English,
physiology and Sanskrit Ramanujan failed his Fellow of Arts exam in December 1906 and
again a year later. Without an FA degree, he left college and continued to pursue independent
research in mathematics, living in extreme poverty and often on the brink of starvation.

In 1910, after a meeting between the 23-year-old Ramanujan and the founder of the
Indian Mathematical Society, V. Ramaswamy Aiyer, Ramanujan began to get recognition in
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Madras's mathematical circles, leading to his inclusion as a researcher at the University of

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  Adulthood In India.
On 14 July 1909, Ramanujan married Janaki (Janakiammal; 21 March 1899
– 13 April 1994),[a girl his mother had selected for him a year earlier and who was
ten years old when they married.It was not unusual then for marriages to be
arranged with girls at a young age. Janaki was from Rajendram, a village close to
Marudur (Karur district) Railway Station. Ramanujan's father did not participate in
the marriage ceremony. As was common at that time, Janaki continued to stay at her
maternal home for three years after marriage, until she reached puberty. In 1912,
she and Ramanujan's mother joined Ramanujan in Madras.
After the marriage, Ramanujan developed a hydrocele testis. The condition
could be treated with a routine surgical operation that would release the blocked
fluid in the scrotal sac, but his family could not afford the operation. In January 1910,
a doctor volunteered to do the surgery at no cost.

After his successful surgery, Ramanujan searched for a job. He stayed at a friend's
house while he went from door to door around Madras looking for a clerical position. To
make money, he tutored students at Presidency College who were preparing for their
Fellow of Arts exam.

In late 1910, Ramanujan was sick again. He feared for his health, and told his friend R.
Radakrishna Iyer to "hand [his notebooks] over to Professor Singaravelu Mudaliar [the mathematics
professor at Pachaiyappa's College] or to the British professor Edward B. Ross, of the Madras
Christian College. After Ramanujan recovered and retrieved his notebooks from Iyer, he took a train
from Kumbakonam to Villupuram, a city under French control. In 1912, Ramanujan moved with his
wife and mother to a house in Saiva Muthaiah Mudali street, George Town, Madras, where they
lived for a few months. In May 1913, upon securing a research position at Madras University,

Ramanujan moved with his family to Triplicane.

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  Life in England

Ramanujan (centre) and his colleague G. H. Hardy (extreme right), with

other scientists, outside the Senate House, Cambridge, c.1914–19

Ramanujan departed from Madras aboard the S.S. Nevasa on 17 March 1914.
When he disembarked in London on 14 April, Neville was waiting for him with a car. Four
days later, Neville took him to his house on Chesterton Road in Cambridge. Ramanujan
immediately began his work with Littlewood and Hardy. After six weeks Ramanujan moved
out of Neville's house and took up residence on Whewell's Court, a five-minute walk from
Hardy's room. Hardy and Littlewood began to look at Ramanujan's notebooks. Hardy had
already received 120 theorems from Ramanujan in the first two letters, but there were
many more results and theorems in the notebooks. Hardy saw that some were wrong,
others had already been discovered, and the rest were new breakthroughs. Ramanujan left
a deep impression on Hardy and Littlewood. Littlewood commented, "I can believe that he's
at least a Jacobi. while Hardy said he "can compare him only with Euler or Jacobi.”

Whewell's Court, Trinity College,

Cambridge
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 On 6 December 1917, Ramanujan was elected to the London Mathematical
Society. On 2 May 1918, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the second Indian
admitted, after Ardaseer Cursetjee in 1841. At age 31 Ramanujan was one of the youngest
Fellows in the Royal Society's history. He was elected "for his investigation in elliptic
functions and the Theory of Numbers." On 13 October 1918 he was the first Indian to be
elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

 Illness and death

Ramanujan was plagued by health problems throughout his life. His health
worsened in England; possibly he was also less resilient due to the difficulty of
keeping to the strict dietary requirements of his religion there and because of
wartime rationing in 1914–18. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis and a severe
vitamin deficiency, and confined to a sanatorium. In 1919 he returned to
Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency, and in 1920 he died at the age of 32. After his
death his brother Tirunarayanan compiled Ramanujan's remaining handwritten
notes, consisting of formulae on singular moduli, hypergeometric series and
continued fractions. Ramanujan's widow, Smt. Janaki Ammal, moved to Bombay; in
1931 she returned to Madras and settled in Triplicane, where she supported herself
on a pension from Madras University and income from tailoring. In 1950 she
adopted a son, W. Narayanan, who eventually became an officer of the State Bank of
India and raised a family. In her later years she was granted a lifetime pension from
Ramanujan's former employer, the Madras Port Trust, and pensions from, among
others, the Indian National Science Academy and the state governments of Tamil
Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal. She continued to cherish Ramanujan's
memory, and was active in efforts to increase his public recognition; prominent
mathematicians, including George Andrews, Bruce C. Berndt and Béla Bollobás made
it a point to visit her while in India. She died at her Triplicane residence in 1994. A
1994 analysis of Ramanujan's medical records and symptoms by Dr. D. A. B. Young
concluded that his medical symptoms—including his past relapses, fevers, and
hepatic conditions—were much closer to those resulting from hepatic amoebiasis,
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dysentery before he left India. When not properly treated, amoebic dysentery can lie
 dormant for years and lead to hepatic amoebiasis, whose diagnosis was not then
well established. At the time, if properly diagnosed, amoebiasis was a treatable and
often curable disease; British soldiers who contracted it during the First World War
were being successfully cured of amoebiasis around the time Ramanujan left
England.

 
Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan made contributions to the theory of
numbers, including pioneering discoveries of the properties of the partition function. His
papers were published in English and European journals, and in 1918 he was elected to the
Royal Society of London.

 What did Ramanujan invented in maths?

He worked out the Riemann series, the elliptic integrals, hypergeometric series, the
functional equations of the zeta function, and his own theory of divergent series, in
which he found a value for the sum of such series using a technique he invented that
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came to be called Ramanujan summation.

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an Indian mathematician who made great and original contributions to many
mathematical fields, including complex analysis, number theory, infinite series, and
continued fractSrinivasa Ramanujan, the mathematical genius, came to be
recognized only posthumously for his incredible contribution to the world of
Mathematics. Leaving this world at the young age of 32, Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-
1920) contributed a great deal to mathematics that only a few could overtake in
their lifetime. Born in Erode (Tamil Nadu), Ramanujan demonstrated that he had an
exceptional intuitive grasp of mathematics at a very young age. He began developing
his theories in mathematics and published his first paper in 1911. Infact, he was
the second Indian to be included as a Fellow of the Royal Society 9a fellowship of the
world’s most respected and famous scientists) in 1918. The field of number theory in
mathematics was enriched with his intuitive research and his vast contribution.
Every year, Srinivasa Ramanujan’s birth anniversary on December 22 is
commemorated as National Mathematics Day.

Ramanujan has been recognized as one of the greatest mathematicians of his time.
Surprisingly, he never had any formal training in mathematics. Most of his
mathematics discoveries were based on sheer intuition, and most of them were
proved to be right much later. GH Hardy, a famous British Mathematician, mentored
him at Cambridge and encouraged Ramanujan to publish his findings in several
papers. The Indian mathematician had few opportunities during his lifetime to
showcase his talents. Still, his passion for giving his best to mathematics did not hold
him back from leaving back his legacy for the world to marvel at. Ramanujan died at
the age of 32 after contracting tuberculosis. But he has left behind a legacy that
continues to inspire mathematicians to this day.
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Ramanujan compiled around 3,900 results consisting of equations and identities.

One of his most treasured findings was his infinite series for pi. This series forms the basis of
many algorithms we use today. He gave several fascinating formulas to calculate the digits
of pi in many unconventional ways.
He discovered a long list of new ideas to solve many challenging mathematical
problems, which gave a significant impetus to the development of game theory. His
contribution to game theory is purely based on intuition and natural talent and remains
unrivalled to this day.
He elaborately described the mock theta function, which is a concept in the realm
of modular form in mathematics. Considered an enigma till sometime back, it is now
recognized as holomorphic parts of mass forms.
One of Ramanujan’s notebooks was discovered by George Andrews in 1976 in the
library at Trinity College. Later the contents of this notebook were published as a book.
1729 is known as the Ramanujan number. It is the sum of the cubes of two
numbers 10 and 9. For instance, 1729 results from adding 1000 (the cube of 10) and 729
(the cube of 9). This is the smallest number that can be expressed in two different ways as it
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is the sum of these two cubes. Interestingly, 1729 is a natural number following 1728 and
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 Ramanujan’s contributions stretch across mathematics fields, including complex
analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions.

 Pursuit Of Career In Mathematics:-

In 1910, Ramanujan met deputy collector V. Ramaswamy Aiyer. who founded the
Indian Mathematical Society. Wishing for a job at the revenue department where Aiyer
worked, Ramanujan showed him his mathematics notebooks. As Aiyer later recalled:

I was struck by the extraordinary mathematical results contained in [the notebooks].

I had no mind to smother his genius by an appointment in the lowest rungs of the revenue
department.

Aiyer sent Ramanujan, with letters of introduction, to his mathematician friends in

Madras. Some of them looked at his work and gave him letters of introduction to R.
Ramachandra Rao, the district collector for Nellore and the secretary of the Indian
Mathematical Society.Rao was impressed by Ramanujan's research but doubted that it was
his own work. Ramanujan mentioned a correspondence he had with Professor Saldhana, a
notable Bombay mathematician, in which Saldhana expressed a lack of understanding of his
work but concluded that he was not a fraud. Ramanujan's friend C. V. Rajagopalachari tried
to quell Rao's doubts about Ramanujan's academic integrity. Rao agreed to give him another
chance, and listened as Ramanujan discussed elliptic integrals, hypergeometric series, and
his theory of divergent series, which Rao said ultimately convinced him of Ramanujan's
brilliance. When Rao asked him what he wanted, Ramanujan replied that he needed work
and financial support. Rao consented and sent him to Madras. He continued his research
with Rao's financial aid. With Aiyer's help, Ramanujan had his work published in the Journal

of the Indian Mathematical Society.

He waited for a solution to be offered in three issues, over six months, but
failed to receive any. At the end, Ramanujan supplied the solution to the problem
himself. On page 105 of his first notebook, he formulated an equation that could be
used to solve the infinitely nested radicals problem.
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 Using this equation, the answer to the question posed in the Journal was simply 3,
obtained by setting x = 2, n = 1, and a = 0. Ramanujan wrote his first formal paper
for the Journal on the properties of Bernoulli numbers. One property he discovered
was that the denominators (sequence A027642 in the OEIS) of the fractions of
Bernoulli numbers are always divisible by six. He also devised a method of
calculating Bn based on previous Bernoulli numbers. One of these methods follows:

It will be observed that if n is even but not equal to zero,

1. Bn is a fraction and the numerator of Bn/n in its lowest terms is a prime

number,
2. the denominator of Bn contains each of the factors 2 and 3 once and only
once,
3. 2n(2n − 1)Bn/n is an integer and 2(2n − 1)Bn consequently is an odd integer.

In his 17-page paper "Some Properties of Bernoulli's Numbers" (1911), Ramanujan

gave three proofs, two corollaries and three conjectures. His writing initially had many
flaws. As Journal editor M. T. Narayana Iyengar noted:

Mr. Ramanujan's methods were so terse and novel and his presentation so lacking in
clearness and precision, that the ordinary [mathematical reader], unaccustomed to such
intellectual gymnastics, could hardly follow him.

Ramanujan later wrote another paper and also continued to provide problems in
the Journal. In early 1912, he got a temporary job in the Madras Accountant General's
office, with a monthly salary of 20 rupees. He lasted only a few weeksToward the end of
that assignment, he applied for a position under the Chief Accountant of the Madras Port
Trust

In a letter dated 9 February 1912, Ramanujan wrote:

Sir,
I understand there is a clerkship vacant in your office, and I beg to apply for the
same. I have passed the Matriculation Examination and studied up to the F.A. but was
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have, however, been devoting all my time to Mathematics and developing the subject. I can
say I am quite confident I can do justice to my work if I am appointed to the post. I therefore
beg to request that you will be good enough to confer the appointment on me.

Attached to his application was a recommendation from E. W. Middlemast a

mathematics professor at the Presidency College, who wrote that Ramanujan was "a young
man of quite exceptional capacity in Mathematics" Three weeks after he applied, on 1
March, Ramanujan learned that he had been accepted as a Class III, Grade IV accounting
clerk, making 30 rupees per month. At his office Ramanujan easily and quickly completed
the work he was given and spent his spare time doing mathematical research. Ramanujan's
boss, Sir Francis Spring, and S. Narayana Iyer, a colleague who was also treasurer of the
Indian Mathematical Society, encouraged Ramanujan in his mathematical pursuits

The first two professors, H. F. Baker and E. W. Hobson, returned Ramanujan's papers
without comment. On 16 January 1913, Ramanujan wrote to G. H. Hardy. Coming from an
unknown mathematician, the nine pages of mathematics made Hardy initially view
Ramanujan's manuscripts as a possible fraud.Hardy recognised some of Ramanujan's
formulae but others "seemed scarcely possible to believe". One of the theorems Hardy
found amazing was on the bottom of page three (valid for 0 < a < b + 1/2):

The first result had already been determined by G. Bauer in 1859. The second was
new to Hardy, and was derived from a class of functions called hypergeometric
series, which had first been researched by Euler and Gauss. Hardy found these
results "much more intriguing" than Gauss's work on integrals.After
seeing Ramanujan's theorems on continued fractions on the last page of the
manuscripts, Hardy said the theorems "defeated me completely; I had never seen
anything in the least like them before", and that they "must be true, because, if they
were not true, no one would have the imagination to invent them". Hardy asked a
colleague, J. E. Littlewood, to take a look at the papers. Littlewood was amazed by
Ramanujan's genius. After discussing the papers with Littlewood, Hardy concluded
that the letters were "certainly the most remarkable I have received" and that
Ramanujan was "a mathematician of the highest quality, a man of altogether
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 "not one [theorem] could have been set in the most advanced mathematical
examination in the world".

On 8 February 1913 Hardy wrote Ramanujan a letter expressing interest in his work,
adding that it was "essential that I should see proofs of some of your assertions".Before his
letter arrived in Madras during the third week of February, Hardy contacted the Indian
Office to plan for Ramanujan's trip to Cambridge. Secretary Arthur Davies of the Advisory
Committee for Indian Students met with Ramanujan to discuss the overseas trip. In
accordance with his Brahmin upbringing, Ramanujan refused to leave his country to "go to a
foreign land". Meanwhile, he sent Hardy a letter packed with theorems, writing, "I have
found a friend in you who views my labour sympathetically."

To supplement Hardy's endorsement, Gilbert Walker, a former mathematical

lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, looked at Ramanujan's work and expressed
amazement, urging the young man to spend time at Cambridge. As a result of Walker's
endorsement, B. Hanumantha Rao, a mathematics professor at an engineering college,
invited Ramanujan's colleague Narayana Iyer to a meeting of the Board of Studies in
Mathematics to discuss "what we can do for S. Ramanujan".The board agreed to grant
Ramanujan a monthly research scholarship of 75 rupees for the next two years at
the University of Madras.

While he was engaged as a research student, Ramanujan continued to submit papers

to the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society. In one instance Iyer submitted some of
Ramanujan's theorems on summation of series to the journal, adding, "The following
theorem is due to S. Ramanujan, the mathematics student of Madras University." Later in
November, British Professor Edward B. Ross of Madras Christian College, whom Ramanujan
had met a few years before, stormed into his class one day with his eyes glowing, asking his
students, "Does Ramanujan know Polish?" The reason was that in one paper, Ramanujan
had anticipated the work of a Polish mathematician whose paper had just arrived in the
day's mail. In his quarterly papers Ramanujan drew up theorems to make definite integrals
more easily solvable. Working off Giuliano Frullani's 1821 integral theorem, Ramanujan
formulated generalisations that could be made to evaluate formerly unyielding integrals.
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to England. Hardy enlisted a colleague lecturing in Madras, E. H. Neville, to mentor and bring
Ramanujan to England. Neville asked Ramanujan why he would not go to Cambridge.
Ramanujan apparently had now accepted the proposal; Neville said, "Ramanujan needed no
converting" and "his parents' opposition had been withdrawn". Apparently Ramanujan's
mother had a vivid dream in which the family goddess, the deity of Namagiri, commanded
her "to stand no longer between her son and the fulfilment of his life's purpose".On 17
March 1914 Ramanujan traveled to England by ship.leaving his wife to stay with his parents
in India

Fellow of the Royal Society

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 Quate of Srinivas Ramanujan

History of National Mathematics Day

This day was first declared on February 26, 2012, by the former Prime
Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. He later visited Madras University to pay tribute to
Ramanujan’s achievements for his 125th birth anniversary. So, from that time, it has been
celebrated on December 22 annually.

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Srinivasa Ramanujan was a self-taught mathematician. The celebration of this day pays
tribute to the legend and his contribution towards Maths.

 Significance of National Mathematics Day:

The aim of the celebration is to raise awareness about Mathematics amongst

people and to increase a positive attitude towards learning maths. On this day,
mathematicians, teachers, students are provided training for Maths and research different

areas of maths.

National Mathematics Day (India):

The 2012 Indian stamp dedicated to the National Mathematics Day and
featuring Ramanujan

The Indian government declared 22 December to be National Mathematics

Day. This was announced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 26 February 2012
at Madras University,to mark the 125th birth anniversary of the Indian
mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. On this occasion Singh also announced that
2012 would be celebrated as the National Mathematics Year.
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Since then, India's National Mathematics Day is celebrated every 22

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December with numerous educational events held at schools and universities

throughout the country. In 2017, the day's significance was enhanced by the opening
of the Ramanujan Math Park in Kuppam, in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh

 National Mathematics Day 2020: India celebrates birth

anniversary of legendary mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan:

Students of his age used to juggle with algebra, trigonometry and arithmetic problems

but Ramanujan found theorems to solve tricky trigonometric problems.

22 December is a special day for mathematics. This day is observed as National

Mathematics Day to celebrate the achievements of Srinivasa Ramanujan. The legendary
mathematician was born on this day in 1887. In 2012, then prime minister Manmohan Singh
declared 22 December as National Mathematics Day.

Ramanujan was born in Tamil Nadu’s Erode to an orthodox Tamil Iyengar family.
From his school days, he was a brilliant student and after securing good marks in all the
subjects, he entered secondary school, where his love and interest in mathematics began.

Students of his age used to juggle with algebra, trigonometry and arithmetic
problems but Ramanujan found theorems to solve tricky trigonometric problems. When he
was 17, he got a scholarship to study at Government Arts College in Kumbakonam.
However, his obsession with mathematics was so strong that he failed in most of the other
subjects, thereby losing his scholarship.

With no degree and barely having any money, Ramanujan started tutoring students
for mathematics for a living. He gradually got a temporary job in the Madras Accountant
General’s office. Side by side, he started to build up his network with some of the top
mathematicians in South India that helped him sustain his daily life in Chennai. He also
started contributing to the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society.
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 In 1913, his career saw a major twist when his 10-page letter with statements of
theorems on infinite series, improper integrals, continued fractions, and number theory
reached professor GH Hardy. Impressed by his ability, Hardy invited Ramanujan to the
University of Cambridge.

Ramanujan was 26-year-old when he arrived at Cambridge and built a great

partnership with Hardy. During his stay in England, Ramanujan was awarded a BSc (later
renamed PhD) and made the youngest Fellow of Royal Society.

 Unknown Facts 

1. He was from a small town in Tamil Nadu –

On December 22, 1887, the math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, was born in his
maternal grandmother’s house in Erode.

2. Worked out Loney’s Trigonometry exercises without any help –

When Ramanujan was thirteen, he could work out Loney’s Trigonometry
exercises without any help!
3. He was married to a 9-year-old girl –
Ramanujan was married to Janaki Ammal on March 21, 1899.

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 4. Never had any friends in school –
He never had any friends in school because his peers rarely understood him at
school, & were always in awe of his mathematical acumen!
5. He failed to get a degree –
As a young man, he failed to get a degree, as he did not clear his fine arts courses,
although he always performed exceptionally well in mathematics.
6. Used ‘slate’ because paper was expensive –
Because paper was expensive, Ramanujan often used to derive his results on a
'slate'.

7. English weather didn't suit him -

G.H. Hardy brought Ramanujam with him to England, but unfortunately the English
weather didn't suit him. He also reported mild racism towards him.

8. He had little formal training in mathematics -

Even with little formal training in mathematics, Ramanujan published his first paper in
the Journal of Indian Mathematical Society, in 1911.

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