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Mathematics Day
INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICS DAY
 14th march
 Theme :- Mathematics unites
NATIONAL MATHEMATICS DAY
 22nd December
 Birthdate of gem of mathematicians Srinivasa
Aiyangar Ramanujan
 Mathematics Unites

 Theme:- The theme of the 2022 International Day of

Mathematics is Mathematics Unites!
 Proposed By:- The theme was proposed by Yuliya Nesterova, a
graduate student from the University of Ottawa in Canada.
 Explanation:- She explains: "Mathematics is a common
language we all have and a common subject with which to
find one another."
 NATIONAL MATHEMATICS DAY

 In India the national mathematics day celebrated on 22 nd December

 In order to commemorate the birth anniversary of genius S. A.
Ramanujan
 Mathematics is the queen all sciences and pillar of all technologies
 Mathematics not just use of complicated formula and calculation but
maths is a universal language which is applied in every aspect of life
 S. A. Ramanujan

 Ramanujan’s life, as said by Sri Aurobindo, was a “rags to mathematical riches” life story.
 His geniuses of the 20th century are still giving shape to 21st-century mathematics. 
 Birth – 

 Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on 22nd December 1887 in the south Indian town of Tamil Nadu,
named Erode. 

 His father worked as a clerk in a saree shop and his mother was a housewife. 

 Since a very early age, he had a keen interest in mathematics and had already become a child
mastermind.
Kumbakonam,tamilnadu state, India
 Education

 He attained his early education and schooling from Madras.

 His love for mathematics had grown at a very young age and was mostly self-
taught.
 He won many academic prizes in high school.
 But when he reached college. As he continued to excel in only one subject and
kept failing in all others. This resulted in him dropping out of college.
 However, he continued to work on his collection of mathematical theorems,
ideologies and concepts until he got his final break through.
 FINAL BREAK THROUGH

 S. A. Ramanujan continued to send his works to international mathematicians.

 In 1912, he was appointed at the position of clerk in the Madras Post Trust Office.

 In 1913, he had sent the famous letter to Hardy, in which he had attached 120 theorems as
a sample of his work.
 Hardy along with another mathematician at Cambridge, J.E.Littlewood analysed his work
and concluded it to be a work of true genius.
 It was after this that his journey and recognition as one of the greatest mathematicians
had started.
 Contributions

 Between 1914 and 1915, Ramanujan along with Hardy published over a dozen research papers.
 During the time period of three years, he had published around 30 research papers.
 To derive an asymptomatic formula Hardy and Ramanujan developed a method, now called the
circle method.
 In 1911 in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society his first paper published, a 17-page
work on Bernoulli numbers.
 Hardy-Ramanujan collaboration gave a remarkable formula for the number p(n) of partitions of
a number ‘n’
 
 Achievements of Srinivasa Ramanujan
 At the age of 12, he had completely read Loney’s book on Plane Trigonometry and A Synopsis of
Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics, which were beyond the standard of a high
school student.
 In 1916 - Bachelor of Science degree “by research” (Cambridge University).

 In 1918 - first Indian to be honoured as a Fellow (Royal Society).

 In 1997 - journal was launched to publish work “in areas of mathematics influenced by Ramanujan”

 In 2012 - National Mathematical Year as it marked the 125th birth year of one of the greatest Indian
mathematicians.
 Since 2021, his birth anniversary, December 22, is observed as the National Mathematics Day every
year in India. 
 Death

 In 1919, Ramanujan’s health had started to decline, after which he decided to move
back to India.
 After his return in 1920, his health further worsened and he died at the age of just 32
years. 
 Shakuntala Devi

 Shakuntala Devi was born in Bangalore, Karnataka to an orthodox Kannada Brahmin family. 

 Her father discovered his daughter’s ability to memorise numbers while teaching her a card
trick when she was about three years old.
 Her father took her on road shows that displayed her ability at calculation.

 She did this without any formal education.

 At the age of six, she demonstrated her arithmetic abilities at the University of Mysore

 In 1944, Shakuntala Devi moved to London with her father.

 Human computer

 Shakuntala Devi travelled the world demonstrating her arithmetic talents.

 In 1980, at the Imperial College of London, she correctly multiplied two 13-
digit numbers in only 28 seconds. The feat was even more remarkable because
it included the time to recite the 26-digit solution!
 It earned her a place in the 1982 edition of the Guinness Book of World
Records. Additionally, she also came to be known as “the human computer.”
 Shakuntala Devi explained many of the methods she used to do mental
calculations in her book Figuring: The Joy of Numbers.
 Life journey

 In the mid-1960s, when Shakuntala returned home.

 She married Paritosh Banerji, an IAS officer from Kolkata.
 In 1977, she wrote The World of Homosexuals, the first study of homosexuality in
India.
 In 1980, she contested in the Lok Sabha elections as an independent, from Mumbai
South and from Medakin part of Telangana (presently).
 In Medak she stood against Indira Gandhi, she stood ninth, with 6514 votes (1.47% of
the votes). Shakuntala Devi returned to Bangalore in the early 1980s.
 Death

 April 2013, Shakuntala Devi was admitted to a hospital in Bangalore with

respiratory problems.
 She died in the hospital on 21 April 2013.
 On 4 November 2013, Shakuntala Devi was honoured with a Google
Doodle on what would have been her 84th birthday.
 Aryabhata

 Aryabhata was an Indian mathematician and astronomer of the classical age of Indian
mathematics and Indian astronomy. He flourished in the Gupta Era and produced works such
as the Aryabhatiya and the Arya-siddhanta.
 Born: 476 AD, Pataliputra
 Died: 550 AD, Pataliputra
 Era: Gupta era
 Influences: Surya Siddhant
 Main interests: Mathematics, astronomy
Born in - 476 AD DEATH - 550 AD
 How did he become famous?

 Aryabhata became famous as a mathematician and astronomer.

 In his only surviving work, Aryabhatiya, he covered a wide range of topics,

such as extracting square roots, solving quadratic equations, and
predicting eclipses.
 What did Aryabhata discover?

 Aryabhata discovered an approximation of pi , 62832/20000 = 3.1416.

 He also correctly believed that the planets and the Moon shine by

reflected sunlight and that the motion of the stars is due to Earth’s
rotation
 What was his legacy?

 Aryabhata’s book Aryabhatiya was one of the high points of the “classical”

period of Indian mathematics.
 The translation of Aryabhatiya into Arabic was at the end of the 8th century
exercised
 It had great influence on the development of mathematical astronomy in
the Islamic world.
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