On the eve of 125th birthday of our Great Indian Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, Google doodles its page on honor to Him. I am very much impressed and thankful to Google Inc. for this activity. However, the day December 22nd was already declared as the ‘National Mathematics Day’ in India by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the eve of ‘The Legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan – An International Conference’ held at Delhi from 17th – 22nd December 2012.
A Short Biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan
Born on 22nd December 1887 at Erode, Madras Presidency (India) in a Hindu Brahmin family Srinivasa Ramanujan was mathematician and autodidact, who has contributed several solutions to the world of mathematics. His mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions are priceless gifts to this world.
At the age of 13 he was thorough the ‘Advanced Trigonometry’ book written by S. L. Loney and discovered some unique theorems on geometry. In 1904, he graduated from Town Higher Secondary School and awarded with ‘K. Ranganath Rao Prize for Mathematics’ and in the same year he entered the Govt. Arts College of Kumbakonam with a scholarship; but due to lack of concentration on other subjects he failed to complete his degree. On July 14, 1909 he married to Janaki Ammal; but due to several medical issues he was out of education and research for some days.
On the year 1914 he went to London as per G. H. Hardy’s invitation and prepared hundreds of theorems in Cambridge University. On March, 1916 he was awarded with PhD for his work on highly composite numbers, which was published in London Mathematical Society. On December 6, 1917 he was elected to London Mathematical Society and on 1918 he became Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the first Indian Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1918.
In the year 1919 he returned to India due to health problems; and due to tuberculosis and lack of vitamins died on 26 April, 1920 (at the age of 32).
