Srinivasa Ramanunjan A great Indian Mathematician

1. ( Dec 22, 1887 - Apr 26, 1920 )
A Great
Indian
Mathematician

2. Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of India Great Mathematical geniuses. He made
substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on
elliptic functions, continued fractions and infinite series. In 1900 he began to work
on his own on mathematics summing geometric and arithmetic series.
Srinivasa Ramanujan is remembered for his unique mathematical brilliance,
which he had largely developed by himself. In 1920 he died at age 32, generally
unknown to the world at large but recognized by mathematicians as a phenomenal
genius, without peer since Leonhard Euler (1707–83) and Carl Jacobi (1804–51).
Introduction

3. Srinivasa Ramanujan contribution to Mathematics
He has made extraordinary contributions in the field of mathematical analysis,
number theory, infinite series and continued fractions and the most inspiring
thing about him is that all these were achieved without a formal education in
mathematics. It was his love and passion that led him to pursue mathematics at a
very informal level yet contribute more than others.

4. Ramanujan Honour
➢ Awarded BA degree by research (later called PhD) in March 1916.
➢ 6.12.1917- Elected to London Mathematical Society.
➢ Became the “Fellow of the Royal Society” in 1918.
➢ Became the first Indian to be elected a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

5. The Man Who Knew Infinity
Ramanujan died of his illness on April 26, 1920, at the age of 32. Even on his deathbed, he had been
consumed by math, writing down a group of theorems that he said had come to him in a dream. These and
many of his earlier theorems are so complex that the full scope of Ramanujan’s legacy has yet to be completely
revealed and his work remains the focus of much mathematical research. His collected papers were published
by Cambridge University Press in 1927.
Of Ramanujan's published papers — 37 in total — Berndt reveals that "a huge portion of his work was left
behind in three notebooks and a 'lost' notebook. These notebooks contain approximately 4,000 claims, all
without proofs. Most of these claims have now been proved, and like his published work, continue to inspire
modern-day mathematics."
A biography of Ramanujan titled The Man Who Knew Infinity was published in 1991, and a movie of the same
name starring Dev Patel as Ramanujan and Jeremy Irons as Hardy, premiered in September 2015 at the
Toronto Film Festival.

6. National Mathematics Day
India celebrates 22nd December every year as National Mathematics Day to
honour the birthday of the greatest mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The
world will always be grateful to him for his contributions in Mathematics.

7. “ An equation means nothing
to me unless it expresses a
thought of god.”
Srinivasa Ramanujan

8. Made by Kavya Bhatia
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