SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN

INFORMATIONS ABOUT HIM

 Born : 22 December 1887(1887-12-22)

Erode, Indian Empire Died 26
April 1920 (aged 32)
Chetput, (Madras)
 Residence : Tamil Nadu, India
 Fields : Mathematics
 Ramanujan first encountered formal mathematics at age 10
 CHILDHOOD

 He was born in his Grandmother's house in Erode

 He was a year old his mother took him to the town of
Kumbakonam
 His father: clerk in a cloth merchant's shop in Kumbakonam
 1 October 1892, Ramanujan was
enrolled at the local school
 He tried to avoid going to school
 ADULTHOOD

 On 14 July 1909, Ramanujan was married to a nine-year old bride, Janaki

Ammal.
 Ramanujan boarded on the 17 March 1914

 Ramanujan was awarded a B.A. degree in March 1916 for his work on

highly composite numbers which was published as a paper in the Journal of

the London Mathematical Society.
 Ramanujan returned to Kumbakonam, India in 1919 and died soon

thereafter at the age of 32. His widow, S. Janaki Ammal, lived in Chennai
(formerly Madras) until her death in 1994
 MATHEMATICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

 The Ramanujan conjecture

 Hardy–Ramanujan number 1729

 Ramanujan's notebooks

 Ramanujan recorded the bulk of his results in four notebooks of

loose leaf paper

 highly composite numbers (numbers with a large number

of factors)
 RECOGNITION

 Ramanujan's home state of Tamil Nadu celebrates 22 December

(Ramanujan's birthday) as 'State IT Day', memorializing both the

man and his achievements, as a native of Tamil Nadu
A stamp picturing Ramanujan was released by the
Government of India in 1962 – the 75th anniversary of
Ramanujan's birth – commemorating his achievements in the
field of number theory
Srinivasa Ramanujan