Srinivasa Ramanujan's "lost notebook", containing discoveries from the last year of his life, caused great excitement among mathematicians when it was rediscovered in 1976.
27 Facts About Srinivasa Ramanujan
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Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 into a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family in Erode, in present-day Tamil Nadu.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan's mother, Komalatammal, was a housewife and sang at a local temple.
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In December 1889, Srinivasa Ramanujan contracted smallpox, but recovered, unlike the 4,000 others who died in a bad year in the Thanjavur district around this time.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan's mother gave birth to two more children, in 1891 and 1894, both of whom died before their first birthdays.
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On 1 October 1892, Srinivasa Ramanujan was enrolled at the local school.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan's family enlisted a local constable to make sure he attended school.
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Since Srinivasa Ramanujan's father was at work most of the day, his mother took care of the boy, and they had a close relationship.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan was shown how to solve cubic equations in 1902.
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When he graduated from Town Higher Secondary School in 1904, Ramanujan was awarded the K Ranganatha Rao prize for mathematics by the school's headmaster, Krishnaswami Iyer.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan failed his Fellow of Arts exam in December 1906 and again a year later.
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On 14 July 1909, Srinivasa Ramanujan married Janaki, a girl his mother had selected for him a year earlier and who was ten years old when they married.
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In 1912, she and Srinivasa Ramanujan's mother joined Srinivasa Ramanujan in Madras.
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In 1912, Srinivasa Ramanujan moved with his wife and mother to a house in Saiva Muthaiah Mudali street, George Town, Madras, where they lived for a few months.
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In May 1913, upon securing a research position at Madras University, Srinivasa Ramanujan moved with his family to Triplicane.
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In 1910, Ramanujan met deputy collector V Ramaswamy Aiyer, who founded the Indian Mathematical Society.
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Mr Srinivasa Ramanujan's methods were so terse and novel and his presentation so lacking in clearness and precision, that the ordinary [mathematical reader], unaccustomed to such intellectual gymnastics, could hardly follow him.
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Hill of University College London commented that Srinivasa Ramanujan's papers were riddled with holes.
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Apparently, Srinivasa Ramanujan's mother had a vivid dream in which the family goddess, the deity of Namagiri, commanded her "to stand no longer between her son and the fulfilment of his life's purpose".
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On 17 March 1914, Srinivasa Ramanujan traveled to England by ship, leaving his wife to stay with his parents in India.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan was awarded a Bachelor of Arts by Research degree in March 1916 for his work on highly composite numbers, sections of the first part of which had been published the preceding year in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society.
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On 6 December 1917, Srinivasa Ramanujan was elected to the London Mathematical Society.
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Hardy said that Srinivasa Ramanujan's discoveries are unusually rich and that there is often more to them than initially meets the eye.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan's intuition led him to derive some previously unknown identities, such as.
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In 1918, Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan studied the partition function extensively.
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Stamps picturing Srinivasa Ramanujan were issued by the government of India in 1962,2011,2012 and 2016.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan IT City is an information technology special economic zone in Chennai that was built in 2011.