Srinivasa Ramanujan Facts
Srinivasa Ramanujan Facts
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| Interesting Srinivasa Ramanujan Facts: |
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| Ramanujan was born in Erode, Madras, India. |
| In 1889 he contracted smallpox but recovered. |
| In 1897 he passed his exams in English, Tamil, geography and arithmetic with the highest scores in his district. |
| In high school he devoured books on mathematics and discovered advanced theorems. |
| In 1903 he read A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics by G.S.Carr and it was instrumental in his future discoveries. |
| When he was seventeen he developed the Bernoulli numbers and calculated the Euler-Mascheroni constant to 15 decimal places. |
| In 1904 he graduated from town Higher Secondary School and received the K. Ranganatha Rao prize in mathematics. |
| He received a scholarship to the Government Arts College but failed to study any subject but mathematics and lost his scholarship. |
| In 1905 he enrolled in another college but again failed to study the other required subjects and left without a degree. |
| Although he had no degree his mathematical studies impressed V. Ramaswamy Aiyer who was the founder of the Indian Mathematical Society. |
| Aiyer gave him letters of introduction to R. Ramachandra Rao who gave him financial backing while he continued his research in mathematics. |
| In 1912 he was hired in the office of the Chief Accountant of the Madras Port Trust. |
| He began to send his mathematical papers to the famous British mathematician,G.H. Hardy. |
| Hardy recognized and encouraged Ramanujan's brilliance in mathematics and presented his papers to his colleagues at Trinity College. |
| On March 17, 1914 Ramanujan left India for England. |
| He spent five years in Cambridge and was eventually awarded a PhD in mathematics. |
| He received many awards for his work and in 1917 he was elected to the London Mathematical Society. |
| In 1918 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society "for his investigation in Elliptic function and the Theory of Numbers." |
| He was diagnosed with tuberculosis and a severe vitamin deficiency but later medical studies point to a case of undiagnosed hepatic amoebiasis. |
| He returned to India in 1919 and died in 1920. |
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