About the Greatest Indian Mathematician Ramanujan

2. Presented by:-
n.Aananthakrishnan
6th ‘a’

3. Greatest indian mathematician

4. Srinivasa Ramanujan

5. Father : Kuppuswamy Srinivasa
Iyengar
Mother : Komalatammal
Born : 22 December 1887
place : Erode
Died : 26 April 1920 (aged 32)

6. 7 years Old
Once his teacher said that when
zero is divided by any number,
the result is zero, Ramanujan
immediately asked his teacher,
whether zero divided by zero
gives zero; This shows early
signs of his genius!

7. SCHOOL EDUCATION
• Passed primary examination
and Stood first in the district at
Town high school-
Kumbakonam (1898).
• Mastered advanced
trigonometry written by S. L.
Loney at the age of 13 years.

8. TO ENGLAND
• He was invited England to
improve his works by G.H.
Hardy and J.E. Littlewood,who
were two of big mathematicans at
this time.
• He was elected to the London
Mathematical Society and he
became a Fellow of the Royal
Society.

9. Best known for:-
Mock theta functions
Ramanujan prime
Ramanujan theta function
Ramanujan's sum
Ramanujan's master
theorem

10. National Mathematics day
The Prime Minister of India, Dr.
Manmohan Singh has declared the
year 2012 as the “National
Mathematical Year” and the date
December 22, being the birthday of
Srinivasa Ramanujan has been
declared as the National Mathematics.

11. Quotes
“Anequationformehasno
meaningunlessit expressa
thoughtofGod”