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Srinivasa Ramanujan- Math Pioneers Series

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Srinivasa Ramanujan was an acclaimed Indian mathematician who was born in southern India in 1887. Growing up, he attended a local grammar school and high school, fostering an interest in mathematics from a very early age. At age 15, Ramanujan read an old math book titled A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics cover to cover, and was transfixed. He perused all of the theorems outlined in the book and began writing some of his own.

One-Track Mind

Ramanujan received scholarships to both the Government College in India and the University of Madras, but upon attending, lost both due to his tendency to focus on his math classes and neglect all others. Regardless, he continued his pursuit of math and published a 17-page paper on Bernoulli numbers in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society in 1911.

Studying at Cambridge

In 1913, Ramanujan began writing to G. H. Hardy, a British mathematician. Hardy was impressed with Ramanujan’s ideas and got him both a researc

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Indian postage stamp honoring Ramanujan, 1962 (Wikimedia commons)

Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician, was born Dec. 22, 1887. Born into a Brahmin family with little means, living south of Madras in southern India, Ramanujan did well enough in school, until he discovered mathematics, which soon captured all his attention. He began to neglect all other subjects except math, to the detriment of his schooling, where he soon lost scholarships, as he failed all exams except mathematical ones. His interest lay in number theory and equations, and such topics as infinite series and prime numbers. Despite his setbacks at school, he received encouragement from teachers and early employers, for he was clearly a mathematical genius.

Title page, A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure Mathematics: Containing Propositions, Formula, and Methods of Analysis, by G. S. Carr, 1886 (Linda Hall Library)

His mother arranged a marriage for him in 1909; his bride was only 10 years old and did not move in with Ramanujan until

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Srinivasa Ramanujan

Indian mathematician (1887–1920)

"Ramanujan" redirects here. For other uses, see Ramanujan (disambiguation).

In this Indian name, the name Srinivasa is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Ramanujan.

Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS
Ramanujan in 1913
Born	Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar (1887-12-22)22 December 1887 Erode, Mysore State, British India (now in Tamil Nadu, India)
Died	26 April 1920(1920-04-26) (aged 32) Kumbakonam, Tanjore District, Madras Presidency, British India (now Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India)
Citizenship	British Indian
Education
Known for
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (1918)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Thesis	Highly Composite Numbers (1916)
Academic advisors

Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar^[a] (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician. Often regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, though he had almost no