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Srinivasa Ramanujan (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an
Indian mathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made
extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, andcontinued
fractions, Ramanujan developed his own mathematical research in isolation. As a result, he rediscovered
known theorems in addition to producing new work. Ramanujan was said to be a natural genius by the
English mathematician G. H. Hardy, in the same league as mathematicians such as Euler and Gausse
Ramanujan was born at Erode, Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu) in a Tamil Brahmin family
of Thenkalai Iyengar sect
. His introduction to formal mathematics began at age 10. He demonstrated a
natural ability, and was given books on advanced trigonometry written by S. L. Loney that he mastered
by the age of 12; he even discovered theorems of his own, and re-discovered Euler's
identity independently] He demonstrated unusual mathematical skills at school, winning accolades and
awards. By 17, Ramanujan had conducted his own mathematical research on Bernoulli numbers and
the Euler–Mascheroni constant.
In 1912–1913, he sent samples of his theorems to three academics at the University of Cambridge. G. H.
Hardy, recognizing the brilliance of his work, invited Ramanujan to visit and work with him
at Cambridge. He became a Fellow of the Royal Societyand a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Ramanujan died of illness, malnutrition, and possibly liver infection in 1920 at the age of 32.
In December 2011, in recognition of his contribution to mathematics, the Government of India declared
that Ramanujan's birthday (22 December) should be celebrated every year as National Mathematics
Day, and also declared 2012 the National Mathematics Year.
Life in England
Ramanujan boarded the S.S. Nevasa on 17 March 1914, and at 10 o'clock in the morning, the ship
departed from Madras. He arrived in London on 14 April. & immediately began his work with
Littlewood and Hardy. After six weeks, Ramanujan took up residence on Whewell's Court, just a fiveminute
walk from Hardy's room. Hardy and Ramanujan began to take a 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 to be found in the notebooks. Hardy saw that some were wrong, others had
already been discovered, while 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 [Leonhard] Euler or Jacobi."
Ramanujan spent nearly five years in Cambridge collaborating with Hardy and Littlewood and published
a part of his findings there. Hardy and Ramanujan had highly contrasting personalities. Their
collaboration was a clash of different cultures, beliefs and working styles. Hardy was an atheist and an
apostle of proof and mathematical rigour, whereas Ramanujan was a deeply religious man and relied
very strongly on his intuition. While in England, Hardy tried his best to fill the gaps in Ramanujan's
education without interrupting his spell of inspiration.
Ramanujan was awarded a B.A. degree by research (this degree was later renamed PhD) in March 1916
for his work on highly composite numbers, the first part of which was published as a paper in
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