Srinivasa Ramanujan

• Context (IE): National Mathematics Day has been celebrated annually on 22^nd December to mark the birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan since 2012.

Srinivasa Ramanujan

• He was born on 22nd December 1887 in Erode, Tamil Nadu.
• In 1903, he secured a scholarship to the University of Madras but lost it due to failing in other subjects.
• In 1911, Ramanujan published the first of his papers in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society.
• His correspondence with British Mathematician G.H. Hardy led to a special scholarship from the University of Madras and a grant from Trinity College, Cambridge.
• He was elected to the Royal Society of London in 1918.
• Ramanujan was the first Indian elected a Trinity College, Cambridge University Fellow.

Legacy of Ramanujan

• Ramanujan compiled results of various equations & identities. The infinite series for Pi is one of them.
• He developed new ways to solve many challenging mathematical problems, leading to the evolution of game theory.
• 1729 is known as the Ramanujan number, the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two different cubes in two different ways.
• “The Man Who Knew Infinity” is a biography and a movie on the life of Ramanujan.

Awards in Mathematics The Fields Medal is awarded to mathematicians under 40 by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) every four years. It is regarded as the Nobel Prize in Mathematics. The Abel Prize is awarded annually by the King of Norway to one or more mathematicians. The Nobel Prize does not include a prize in mathematics.