shrinivas Ramanujan

1. R.R.MEHTA COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
 Subject : Methematics
 Topic : Shrinivasa Iyanger Ramanujan
 Presented By : 1. Mukesh.u.prajapati
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 Guided by : Maitri mam

2. Born : 22 December 1887
Kumbakonam,madras
Presidency British india
Died : 26 April 1920
Chetput,Madras,
British india
College : Trinity College,
Cambridge (B.sc 1916)
Academic Advisors : G.H.Hardy
J.E.Littlewood

3.  Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 in Erode, Madras
Presidency, to K. Srinivasa Iyengar and his wife Komalatammal. His
family was a humble one and his father worked as a clerk in a sari
shop. His mother gave birth to several children after Ramanujan, but
none of them survived infancy.
 Ramanujan contracted smallpox in 1889 but recovered from the
potentially fatal disease. While a young child, he spent considerable
time in his maternal grandparents’ home.
 He started his schooling in 1892. Initially he did not like school though
he soon started excelling in his studies, especially mathematics.

4.  After passing out of Kangayan Primary School, he enrolled at Town
Higher Secondary School in 1897. He soon discovered a book on
advanced trigonometry written by S. L. Loney which he mastered by
the time he was 13. He proved to be brilliant student and won several
merit certificates and academic awards.
 In 1903, he got his hands on a book called ‘A Synopsis of Elementary
Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics’ by G.S. Carr which was a
collection of 5000 theorems. He was thoroughly fascinated by the
book and spent months studying it in detail. This book is credited to
have awakened the mathematical genius in him.
 By the time he was 17, he had independently developed and
investigated the Bernoulli numbers and had calculated the Euler–
Mascheroni constant up to 15 decimal places. He was now no longer
interested in any other subject, and totally immersed himself in the
study of mathematics only.

5.  He graduated from Town Higher Secondary School in 1904 and was
awarded the K. Ranganatha Rao prize for mathematics by the school's
headmaster, Krishnaswami Iyer.
 He went to the Government Arts College, Kumbakonam, on
scholarship. However, he was so preoccupied with mathematics that
he could not focus on any other subject, and failed in most of them.
Due to this, his scholarship was revoked.
 He later enrolled at Pachaiyappa's College in Madras where again he
excelled in mathematics, but performed poorly in other subjects. He
failed to clear his Fellow of Arts exam in December 1906 and again a
year later. Then he left college without a degree and continued to
pursue independent research in mathematics.