Srinivasa Ramanujan (c. 1887–1920)
Born - 22 December 1887 Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency British India.
Died - 26 April 1920 Chetput, Madras, British India.
College - Government Arts College, Pachaiyappa’s College, Cambridge University.
Academic Advisors - G.H.Hardy, J.E.Littlewood.
Left college without a degree and pursued research in Mathematics. No formal training in Mathematics.
Expert in Trigonometry at age 12.
Discovered theorems of his own.
In 1918, first Indian to be elected as “Fellow of the Royal Society and Trinity College”, Cambridge.
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About the Life and Work:
A synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics. Book acknowledged in awakening the genius of Ramanujan.
Married to a 9 year old bride Janaki Ammal on 14 July 1909.
Went door to door for job. Tutored college students..
Met V. Ramaswamy Aiyer, founder of Indian Mathematical Society.
Introduced to R. Ramachandra Rao, secretary of the Indian Mathematical Society, impressed by Ramanujan but doubted his integrity, continued Mathematical Research with Rao’s financial help.
Ramanujan credited his success to his family Goddess, Namagiri of Namakkal.
About the Life and Work:
Published his work in Journal of Indian Mathematical Society.
Made extraordinary contributions to Mathematical Analysis, Number Theory, Infinite Series and Continued Fractions.
Wrote his 1st formal paper for the journal on the properties of Bernoulli Numbers.
In early 1912 he got a job in the Madras Accountant Generals office with a salary of Rs 20 per month. Later he applied for a position under the Chief Accountant of the Madras Port Trust
Accepted as a Class III, Grade IV accounting clerk at 30 rupees/month.
Awarded BA degree by research (later called PhD) in March 1916
6.12.1917 – Elected to London Mathematical Society
Ramanujan's health worsened in England, diagnosed with Tuberculosis and Vitamin deficiency, returned to Kumbakonam in 1919 and died at 32.