Today, April 26, 2023, marks the 103rd death anniversary of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. He died on April 26, 1920.
Srinivasa Ramanujan was born day in 1887 in Erode, Tamil Nadu, to a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family.Notably, National Mathematics Day is celebrated every year on 22nd December in India. The day is celebrated on the birth anniversary of the great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. In 2012, the then PM Manmohan Singh announced his birthday in honour of the great mathematician Ramanujan as National Mathematics Day on December 22.
Ramanujan came from a very poor family. They did not even have the money to pursue their hobbies. It is famous that Ramanujan could have made a math question in more than 100 ways. It is this specialty that has given him the status of a maths guru in the world.
Ramanujan was educated at the government college in Kumbakonam. But he failed the 12th examination because he was not interested in non-mathematical subjects. The school where he failed twice in the 12th standard is today named after Ramanujan. Ramanujan started working as a clerk at madras port trust in 1912. It was here that one of his colleagues first noticed his mathematical talent, who was also a mathematician himself. The colleague advised Ramanujan to go to Professor GH Hardy of Trinity College, Cambridge University. Meanwhile, 16-year-old Ramanujan was married to Janaki Ammal. But his love for mathematics did not diminish even after that. Meanwhile, through the letter, he sent some formulas to Professor GH Hardy of Cambridge University. Hardy was so impressed with him that he called Ramanujan to London and became his mentor. Together they published several research papers in mathematics. His research was also respected by the British.
After joining Trinity College, Ramanujan earned a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1916. In 1917, he found a place in the London Mathematical Society. After that he was inducted into the Royal Society for his research on mathematics. Ramanujan also became the first Indian to receive a fellowship at Trinity College in October 1918. Ramanujan's mathematical talent can be gauged from the fact that in just 32 years of life, he had researched more than 4,000 mathematical theorems that even mathematicians around the world took years to understand.
Ramanujan returned to India from London in 1919. But in the meantime, he got TB and died a year later in 1920. The great mathematician who influenced the whole world with his talent suffered humiliation among himself after he died.
After his death, the Pandits refused to give him a face-to-face because he had not visited Rameswaram for atonement after returning from a sea trip. Robert Canigal wrote a biography of this great mathematician named 'The Man Who New Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan.' He also made a film 'The Man Who New Infinity' in 2015. Dev Patel played Ramanujan in the film.
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