In India, December 22 is recognised as National Mathematics Day. Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan's birthday is today.
The 22nd of December each year is designated as National Mathematics Day. Legendary mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan's birthday falls on this day. To celebrate Ramanujan's life and accomplishments, then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh proclaimed December 22 as National Mathematics Day in 2012.
The following 10 observations on the famous mathematician's life and work:
A) On December 22, 1887, Srinivasa Ramanujan was born into a Brahmin Iyengar family in Erode, Tamil Nadu. He had a natural aptitude for arithmetic and had mastered trigonometry by the age of 12, making him a candidate for a scholarship at the Government Arts College in Kumbakonam.
B) In 1903, he attended the Kumbakonam Government College for his studies. He failed exams in non-mathematical courses because he detested them. At the age of 14, he joined in Pachaiyappa College in Madras.
C) Ramanujan began working as a clerk for the Madras Port Trust in 1912. Some of his coworkers there recognised his mathematical prowess, and one of them recommended that he contact Professor GH Hardy of Trinity College, Cambridge University. After meeting Hardy in 1913, he enrolled at Trinity College.
D) Ramanujan earned a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in 1916. With Hardy's assistance, he later published several papers on his topic. They even worked together on a number of cooperative ventures.
E) In 1917, Ramanujan was chosen to join the London Mathematical Society. In recognition of his work on Elliptic Functions and number theory, he was elected to the prestigious Royal Society the following year. Additionally, he was the first Indian to be chosen as a Fellow of Trinity College.
F) Ramanujan had no formal experience in pure mathematics, but throughout his brief life, he had a significant impact on the field. Infinite series, ongoing fractions, number theory, and mathematical analysis are some of his research specialties.
G) In addition, he made important contributions to the theory of divergent series, the elliptic integrals, the Riemann series, the hypergeometric series, and the functional equations of the zeta function. He is believed to have independently gathered 3,900 results and developed his own theorems.
F) Upon his return to India in 1919, Ramanujan. Due to his declining condition, he passed away on April 26th, a year later. His age was only 32. His life and rise to popularity are portrayed in his book, "The Man Who Knew Infinity," by Robert Kanigel.
G) Dev Patel, a British-Indian actor, plays Ramanujan in the same-named movie that was released in 2015. The movie illuminated Ramanujan's early years in India, his time in Britain, and his path to become the renowned mathematician.
H) Ramanujan's genius is demonstrated by a story from his biography. In this, GH Hardy stated: I recall visiting him once at Putney when he was unwell. After riding in taxi cab number 1729, I made the comment that I thought the number was quite dull and hoped it wasn't a bad omen. It is the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two separate ways, thus it is highly fascinating, he said. Thus, 1729 came to be known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number. While certainly not Ramanujan's greatest contribution, it may be the most memorable.
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