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Sandhya Ramesh, Senior Assistant Editor of Science at ThePrint India inform, Srinivasa Ramanujan’s birth anniversary on 22 December is celebrated as National Mathematics Day to honour the achievements of the legendary mathematician.
Mathematician S. Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887
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During the time Srinivasa Ramanujan was trying to prove his mettle as a mathematician, there was a phase when people struggled to decide whether he was a “real genius or a crank”.
When he presented his ideas to Indian Mathematical Society founder member Ramachandra Rao in the early years of the 20th century, the latter noted that he saw “quite at once that there was something out of the way; but my knowledge did not permit me to judge whether he talked sense or nonsense”.
But it wasn’t long before Ramanujan had put all doubts to rest. By the time he died at the age of 32, the genius of this self-taught mathematician was a subject of global renown, drawing parallels with the greats of the field from centuries past.
Today, his birth anniversary on 22 December is celebrated as National Mathematics Day in India — a tip of the hat to the achievements of a legendary mathematician whose short but spectacular life continues to evoke awe 100 years since his death, inspiring at least two movies over the past decade...
He obtained a Bachelor of Arts by Research degree in March 1916 for his work on highly composite numbers. He made monumental contributions to the fields of elliptic functions, number theory, mathematical analysis, infinite series, continued fractions, and theta functions.
He was subsequently elected to the London Mathematical Society and became one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society. He was also the first Indian Fellow of Trinity College.
Source: ThePrint
