Mathematics in India inevitably makes one think of one extraordinary figure of recent times. This was Srinivasa Ramanujan Bom in a poor Brahmin family in South India, having no opportunities for a proper education, he became a clerk in the Madras Port Trust. But he was bubbling over with some irrepressible quality of instinctive genius and played about with numbers and equations in his spare time. By a lucky chance he attracted the attention of a mathematician who sent some of his amateur work to Cambridge in England People there were impressed and a scholarship was arranged for him So he left his clerk's job and went to Cambridge and during a very brief period there did work of profound value and amazing originality The Royal Society of England went rather out of their way and made him Fellow, but he died two years later, probably of tuberculosis at the age of 33. Professor Julian Huxley has. I believe, referred to him somewhere as the greatest mathematician of the century. Ramanujan's brief life and death are symbolic of conditions in India. Of our millions how few get any education at all, how many live on the verge of starvation; of even those who get some education and have nothing to look forward to but a clerkship in some office on a pay that is usually far less than the unemployment dole in England. If life opened its gates to them and offered them food and healthy conditions of living and education and opportunities of growth, how many among these millions would be eminent scientists, educationists, technicians, industrialists, writers and helping to build a new India and a new world?
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Mathematics in India inevitably makes one think of one extraordinary figure of recent times. This was Srinivasa Ramanujan Bom in a poor Brahmin family in South India, having no opportunities for a proper education, he became a clerk in the Madras Port Trust. But he was bubbling over with some irrepressible quality of instinctive genius and played about with numbers and equations in his spare time. By a lucky chance he attracted the attention of a mathematician who sent some of his amateur work to Cambridge in England People there were impressed and a scholarship was arranged for him So he left his clerk's job and went to Cambridge and during a very brief period there did work of profound value and amazing originality The Royal Society of England went rather out of their way and made him Fellow, but he died two years later, probably of tuberculosis at the age of 33. Professor Julian Huxley has. I believe, referred to him somewhere as the greatest mathematician of the century. Ramanujan's brief life and death are symbolic of conditions in India. Of our millions how few get any education at all, how many live on the verge of starvation; of even those who get some education and have nothing to look forward to but a clerkship in some office on a pay that is usually far less than the unemployment dole in England. If life opened its gates to them and offered them food and healthy conditions of living and education and opportunities of growth, how many among these millions would be eminent scientists, educationists, technicians, industrialists, writers and helping to build a new India and a new world?
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