Biography of famous mathematicians ramanujan mathematician srinivasa

Srinivasa Ramanujan was a famous Indian mathematician. In a lifespan of 32 years, Ramanujan contributed more to mathematics than many other accomplished mathematicians. English mathematician G. Hardy, who worked with him for a number of years, described him as a natural mathematical genius. Although he had no formal training in mathematics, he made significant contributions to mathematical analysis, infinite series, continued fractions and the number theory.

Ramanujan was born on December 22, , in the town of Erode in the South Indian state of Tamilnadu.

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He was born in an orthodox Hindu Brahmin family. Even at a young age of 10, when mathematics was first introduced to him, Ramanujan had tremendous natural ability. He mastered trigonometry by the time he was 12 years old and developed theorems on his own. By the age of 17, he was conducting his own research in fields such as Bernoulli numbers and the Euler-Mascheroni constant.

Ramanujan was a brilliant student, but his obsession with mathematics took a toll on the other subjects and he had to drop out of college as he was unable to get through his college examinations. When he was 16 years old, he got a book entitled A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics , which turned his life around.