Srinivasa Ramanujan

 

Born

22 December 1887
Erode, Tamil Nadu state, India

Education:

    at the age of five he entered the primary school in Kumbakonam although he would attend several different primary schools before entering the Town High School in Kumbakonam in January 1898.

     At the Town High School, Ramanujan was to do well in all his school subjects and showed himself an able all-around scholar.

    In 1900 he began to work on his own in mathematics summing geometric and arithmetic series.

Short story

                    

Srinivasa Ramanujan was a self-taught Indian mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory and continued fractions during the early 20th century. Despite having almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he produced groundbreaking new theorems and identities, many of which have now become staples in the mathematical community.
 
One of his most famous contributions is the Ramanujan prime, a class of highly composite numbers named in his honor. He also made significant contributions to the study of the partition function, which counts the number of ways a positive integer can be expressed as a sum of positive integers.
 
Ramanujan's work was first brought to the attention of the wider mathematical community by British mathematician G. H. Hardy, who was struck by the originality and brilliance of Ramanujan's work. Hardy invited Ramanujan to come to England to work with him, and the two went on to collaborate on some of the most important work of Ramanujan's career.
 
Despite his many achievements, Ramanujan's life was plagued by poor health, and he died at the young age of 32. However, his work has had a lasting impact on the field of mathematics, and he is widely considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century.
 
Today, Ramanujan's legacy lives on through the numerous theorems, formulas, and concepts named in his honor, and his story continues to inspire aspiring mathematicians around the world.

Death

26 April 1920
Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu state, India