CELEBRATING GANIT

WEEK!
The Man Who
Knew Infinity.

Srinivasa
Ramanujan
Iyengar

Ramanujan
Once Said :

An Equation For
Me Has No
Meaning Unless It
Expresses A
Thought Of God

His Thought At The Age

Of Seven

Once His Teacher said that when zero is divided by

any number the result is zero, Ramanujan
immediately asked his teacher, whether zero
divided by zero gives zero; this Shows Early signs
of his genius !

His
By age 12,he mastered an advanced
Childhood
trigonometry book written by S.L. Loney.
After his graduation from high school,he
could not get a degree from both
colleges he entered at different
times(Government
College,Pachaiyappas College) due to
his unwillingness about subjects except
mathematics and he could not enter any
university

Adulthood

H
I
S

He was married to a nine year old girl

named Janaki Annal when he was 22 but H
he did not live with his wife till she was O
12.
M
E
Despite the fact that he was not
educated well, he was known to the
university mathematicians by his works
and growing fame in Madras.
Ramanujan has been publishing his
works with the help of people who
admired
his talent
Srinivasa
Ramanujan(In
Centre) in Journal of Indian

His Visit To England And

He was invited
England
to improve his
His to
Life
There
works

by

G.H.

Hardy

and

J.E.

Littlewood,who were the two big names

of mathematics at that time.
G.H.Hard
y

J.E.Littlewoo
d

He
was
elected
to
the
London
Mathematical Society and he became a
Fellow of the Royal Society.

Hardy Ramanujan
Numbers which
can be expressed
Number

as the sum of cubes of 2 different

numbers.
1729 =
103 + 93 And
123 + 13

4104 =
163 + 23 And
153 + 93

13832 =
203 + 183 And
243 + 23

20683 =
103 + 273 And
243 + 193

What He
Did
?
He worked on :

Elliptic Functions :
f (z) and f (w + z) is same thing.

Continued fraction:

Infinite series : The most important contribution made

by Ramanujan in the world of mathematics is the never
ending cycle of operations. Ramanujan published a
question of the infinite series in one of his journals. Until 6
months he got no reply so he answered the question
himself and thus introduced the infinite series.

What He
Did ?

Infinite Series is the

Series which
includes the Pi
Algorithms,
Ramanujan created
and presented to
the world.

About
Him

Hardy and Littlewood had so many troubles while

they were educating him.Once Littlewood said,
it was extremely difficult because every time
some

matter,

which

it

was

thought

that

Ramanujan needed to know, was mentioned,

Ramanujan's response was an avalanche of
original ideas which made it almost impossible
for Littlewood to persist in his original intention.

Back To India
His

entire

life

was

with

health

problems but his health had been

worse in England due to stress,lack
of vegetarian food and being far
away from home.

Ramanujan returned to India in

1919 and after a short while he died

Recogniti
on

On the 125th anniversary of his birth, the

Government of India declared 22 December
asNATIONAL MATHEMATICS DAY and also year 2012
was declared as theNATIONAL MATHEMATICAL
YEAR.

Thank
You

By
Adhish & Rhe