Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician who showed great aptitude for mathematics from a very young age. As a child, he would solve complex math problems for other students. He developed his mathematical abilities largely through self-study and had discovered theorems and formulas not documented in books he obtained from the local college library. Ramanujan struggled to find recognition for his genius until he wrote a letter to mathematician G.H. Hardy at Cambridge University showcasing his abilities. Hardy arranged for Ramanujan to travel to Cambridge, where despite health issues, he made significant contributions to mathematical research and theories. Ramanujan received prestigious honors for his work but ultimately died young at age 32 from illness contracted in England

1. Biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan

2. Solve this
2 4
1 3
4 2
1 3

3. 3 2 4 1
1 4 2 3
4 3 1 2
2 1 3 4

4. In mathematics class teacher
said the student to divide

5. Divide three bananas to three boys, how
much each will get?

6. • Roar- to laugh loudly

7. • A boy asked “if no banana
is distributed among no
one will everyone still get
one banana?”
• Teacher said If zero banana
is divided among zero each
will get an infinity number
of bananas

8. • Thumped-to beat forcefully

9. • The teacher later
complimented the boy
• It takes several centuries to
answer

10. •Some mathematician claimed

11. • Absurd-stupid and unreasonable silly in a humorous way

12. Indian mathematician Bhaskara who proved that it is
infinity

13. The boy who asked intriguing question was Srinivasa
Ramanujan

14. • Intriguing- very interesting
because of being unusual or
mysterious

16. • His father was a petty clerk
in a cloth shop

17. •Ramanujan early
childhood- he was a
prodigy

18. Prodigy- a child who shows a great ability at a young
age

19. Senior student used to go to his dingy house to get their
difficulty in mathematics solved

20. Dingy-a dark and dirty place

21. At the age of 13 he got Loney’s
trigonometry from college library

22. He came forth with
theorems and formulae
– not given in the
book – they had been
discovered much
earlier by great
mathematicians

23. Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure Applied Mathematics by
George Shoobridge Carr.

24. • Unkempt- not neat or cared for

25. •Uncouth-behaving in an unpleasant way

26. This book triggered
the mathematical
genius in him

27. • Do problems on
loose sheets of
paper, slate and
jot the result in
note books later
became
Ramanujan’s
Frayed
Notebooks.

28. Although he secured first class in mathematics
and got Subramanyan Scholarship

29. He failed twice in his first year arts examination in college

30. He
neglected
other
subject
this
disappoint
ed his
father

31. His father
thought
Ramanujan
had gone
mad when he
found the boy
always
scribbling

32. He began
to look for
a job to
buy papers
for
calculation
s

33. He needed 2000 sheets of
papers for calculations
every month

34. He searched for clerical job by
showing his Frayed note books but no
one can understand

35. •Atlast the Director of Madras Port Trust Francis
Spring impressed by Ramanujan’s note book

36. • Francis Spring gave a clerical job on a monthly salary of Rs 25

37. On may 1913 the University of Madras granted him a fellowship
of Rs 75 a month

38. Ramanujan had sent a letter to great mathematician G.H.Hardy of
Cambridge University

39. In which he set 120
theorems and
formulae

40. Among them was what is known as the Reimann series

41. •Hardy and J.E.Littlewood had discovered a rare mathematical
genius(Ramanujan)

42. On march 17, 1913 he saile
for Britain

43. At Cambridge the cold was hard to bear and being a
vegetarian however he continued his research in
mathematics

44. Hardy found an unsystematic
mathematician in Ramanujnan

45. He played with numbers
as a child would play
with a toy

46. • Distinguished-used to describe a person, respected, admired
for excellence

47. Ramaniujan was elected Fellow of Royal Society on febuary 28,
1918

48. Youngest Indian to
receive this
distinguished fellowship

49. • Emaciated-very thin and weak usually because of illness

50. In October 1918 he become first Indian
to be elected Fellow of Trinity college,
Cambridge

51. In algebra his continued fraction is considered to be equal
to great mathematicians like Leonhard Euler and Jacobi
•Leonhard
•Jacobi

52. While continued his research work he
was affected by Tuberculosis

53. • Agonising- causing extreme physical or mental pain

54. He continued to
play with numbers
even on his death
bed

55. Besidesbeingamathematician
Ramanujanwasanastrologerofrepute
andagoodspeaker

56. He used to give lectures on
subjects like “God, Zero and
Infinity”