Srinivasa Ramanujan, the greatest mathematician, who lived during the British rule in India, has made a substantial contribution to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and fractions. On December 22, every year the country celebrates the National Mathematics Day to commemorate the birth anniversary of Ramanujan. He was born in 1887 in Erode, Tamil Nadu. He continues to be an inspiration for mathematicians across the world. This great mathematician had almost no formal training in mathematics. Most of his discoveries were based on pure intuition but were later proved to be true. By the age of 12, he had mastered trigonometry and developed many theorems on his own with no assistance.
He was the second Indian to be inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society, one of the world’s most eminent Fellowships. He is also the youngest fellows in the history of society to achieve this feat. He compiled 3,900 identities and equations before he lost his life at the age of 32. According to The Better India report, Ramanujan used to put down his ideas in notebooks, in green ink. One of his notebooks known as the ‘lost notebook’ was later published as a book.
He was a follower of goddess Mahalakshmi and credited her for his abilities. He once said, “An equation for me has no meaning unless it represents a thought of God.” Ramanujan once worked as a clerk at the Madras Port Trust as he had no other way of supporting himself. There is also a museum in Chennai that is dedicated to telling his story. It harbours photographs of him and his family, along with letters to and from, relatives and so on.
Ramanujan’s mother was a homemaker and used to sing at a local temple. His father worked as a clerk with a cloth merchant. He married a nine-year-old Janaki Ammal in 1909.
He passed away on April 6, 1920, due to deteriorating health. There is a biopic on his life named The Man Who Knew Infinity, directed by Matthew Brown.
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