This is a breif on the life of great indian mathematician Rinivas Ramanujan.

1. The man who knew infinity and beyond

2.  Prodigy of mathematics
 Achievements
 Childhood
 Adulthood
 What went wrong?
 Intellectuals speak
 Why Ramanujan?
 End

3.  Ramanujan was a dignified man with pleasant manners.
 In the short life of just 32 years Ramanujan had made notable
achievements in his life already.
 Without any formal training in the subject he had created theorems and
gave solutions to the problems then considered unsolvable.
 He independently had compiled nearly 3900 results. His work is still
being studied and is referred as being the source for the new ideas.
 As a firm Hindu he had always credited his mathematical capacities to
divinity. He often stated that “An equation for me has no meaning
unless it expresses a thought of God”.
 In 1920 he died due to the medical reasons and his work was later
compiled by his brother.

4.  At the age of 14 he received merit certificates and academic awards that
continued throughout his school career.
 In 1904, Ramanujan was awarded the K. Ranganatha Rao prize for
mathematics.
 Ramanujan was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree by research
(PhD) in March 1916 for his work on highly composite numbers.
 On 6 December 1917 Ramanujan was elected to the London
Mathematical Society.
 On 2 May 1918 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the second
Indian admitted after Ardaseer Cursetjee in 1841.
 On 13 October 1918 he was the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge.
 Working off Giuliano Frullani's 1821 integral theorem, Ramanujan
formulated generalisations that could be made to evaluate formerly
unyielding integrals.

5.  Born on 22 December 1887 into a Tamil Brahmin family in Erode, Madras
Presidency (now Tamil Nadu).
 His father worked as a clerk in a sari shop and his mother was
a housewife and sang at a local temple. He had a close relationship with
his mother and from her he learnt about his culture and tradition.
 In November 1897, he, passing his primary examinations with best
scores in the district , entered Town Higher Secondary School, where he
encountered formal mathematics for the first time.
 In 1903, when he was 16, he obtained from a library copy of Synopsis of
elementary results in Pure and Applied Mathematics, G.S Carr’s
collection of 5,000 theorems and studied the book in detail which is
generally acknowledged as a key element in awakening his genius.
 Krishnaswami Iyer, his principle then, introduced him as an outstanding
student who deserved scores higher than the maximum.

6.  On 14 July 1909, Ramanujan married Janaki as per his mother’s will.
 To make money he tutored students at Presidency College who were
preparing for their F.A. exam.
 In 1910 he met deputy collector V. Ramaswamy Aiyer, who founded the
Indian Mathematical Society hoping to get a job.
 He later got letters of introduction to R. Ramachandra Rao, the district
collector for Nellore and the secretary of the Indian Mathematical
Society.
 At first Rao doubted his work to be his own but due to several
recommendations, agreed to give him a second chance.
 He continued his research with Rao's financial aid and with Aiyer's help,
Ramanujan had his work published in the Journal of the Indian
Mathematical Society.

7.  After the marriage Ramanujan developed a hydrocele testis but his
family could not afford the operation. In January 1910 a doctor
volunteered to do the surgery at no cost.
 Ramanujan was so much into mathematics that he failed his Fellow of
Arts exam in December 1906 and again a year later due to which he had
to live in extreme poverty and often on the brink of starvation.
 He was consistently doubted for his work as none of the great minds
could believe that he had done it himself.
 In 1910 Ramanujan was sick again. He told his friend R. Radakrishna Iyer
to "hand [his notebooks] over to Professor Singaravelu Mudaliar [the
mathematics professor at Pachaiyappa's College] or to the British
professor Edward B. Ross, of the Madras Christian College.” as he
wasn’t sure about his survival.
 In spite of being a brilliant mind he had to struggle for the fulfillment of
the basic needs.

8.  V. Ramaswamy Aiyer, founder of the Indian Mathematical Society later
recalled “I was struck by the extraordinary mathematical results
contained in [the notebooks]. I had no mind to smother his genius by an
appointment in the lowest rungs of the revenue department.”
 Littlewood commented, "I can believe that he's at least a Jacobi“, while
Hardy said he "can compare him only with Euler or Jacobi as they both
go through some of the theorems formed by Ramanujan.
 The number 1729 is known as the Hardy–Ramanujan number after a
famous visit by Hardy to see Ramanujan at a hospital. Hardy quoted
Littlewood as saying, "Every positive integer was one of [Ramanujan's]
personal friends."

9. There are a lot many great minds our nation has produced but Ramanujan
cannot be compared from any. His excellence and intelligence had made
him standout even at the time where Indians were highly dominated by
foreigners. He was always doubted and questioned for his ideas and his
theorems but that did not stop him from thinking, from forming new
theories and from doing what he loved to. Moreover Ramanujan had been
such a selfless person throughout his life none can even imagine to be. Not
to mention, he had spends weeks in starvation just because he wished to
devote his time into his subject of interest. Where he could earn, run for
money and luxury, he chose to be a man of responsibility and power. He
did not leave what he loved till his last breath and that is what makes him
different from others. He was indeed a true human who lend the humanity
his geniuses in the form of his work. His contribution can never be
neglected and a person like him might not be found ever.