Today is the birth of a gleaming genius in the World of Pure Mathematics.

This
date marks the birth anniversary of legendary mathematician Srinivasa
Ramanujan. Srinivasa Ramunajan was born on December 1887 in Tamil Nadu’s
Erode district to a Brahmin Iyengar Family. Though he had almost no formal
training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical
analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including
solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable. He had
developed a liking of maths at a very young age, mastering trigonometry when he
was 12. In 1912, Ramanujan started working as a clerk in the Madras Port Trust.
There, his mathematical genius was recognised by some of his colleagues and one
of them referred him to Professor G.H. Hardy of Trinity College, Cambridge
University. He met Hardy in 1913, after which he went to Trinity College. He was
also elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Society. Ramanujan was a spiritual
person. When he went to Britain he found out it was hard for him to survive there
as there was barely something which was vegetarian. He cooked his own food &
had to starve most of the time in London. Due to this, he got suffered with
Tuberclosis(TB). He didn’t got proper treatment their as he declined the food he
got. In 1919, Ramanujan returned to India. A year later, on April 26, he died. He
was just 32 years.