This document provides biographical details about mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. It discusses that he was born in 1887 in Kumbakonam, India and showed a natural aptitude for mathematics from a young age. Though he had little formal training, he made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. His health declined while studying at Cambridge University in England and he returned to India, where he later died at the young age of 32.

1. PRESENTED BY GROUP I
1. AFSAR ALI -82
2. PAWAN MINZ-85
3. POOJA SHREE-86
4. SHASHI-98
5. RAVI-108

2. PROLOGUE –SCALE OFF

3. CONTENT
 INTRODUCTION
 DAKSHIN GANGE
 SARANGAPANI SANNIDHI STREET
 A BRAHMIN BOYHOOD
 OFF SCALE

4. INTRODUCTION
 Ramanujan was born on 22 december 1887 in
Erode, madras at the residence of his grandparents
 Residence- Kumbakonam
 Father-kuppuswamy srinivas iyengar
 Mother-komalatammal was a housewife
 Spouse- Janaki Ammal
 College- Government Arts college
pachaiyappa’s college
Cambridge University trinity

5.  Ramanujan was a stubborn faith in his own abilities.
 He was self taught mathematical prodigy from a town
outside madras in south India.
 Ramanujan’s health worsened in England diagnosed
with tuberculosis and vitamins deficiency.
 Returned to kumbakonam in 1919 and died soon there
after at the age of 32 .

6. DAKSHIN GANGE
 Ramanujan heard it all his life the slow, measured
thwap…thwap… thwap of wet clothes.
 The cauvery was a familiar, recurring constant of
Ramanujan life.
 Kumbakonam his hometown, flanked by the cauvery.
 In 1853 when it flooded covering the delta with water
and causing immense damaged

7.  Cauvery was a place for spiritual cleansing for
agriculture surfiet.
 In 1887 the wake of two straight years of failed
monsoon.

8. SARANGAPANI SANNIDHI STREET
 In 1887 in the town of kumbakomam a baby boy,
ramanujan was born
 His mom knew in heart , from the stars she could
chart, this was no ordinary mind.
 The boy grew and played, while the mother sat and
prayed, namagiri gives us guidance and strength.

9.  His mothers called him chinnaswami or liitle lord.
 “Ramanujan”- pronounced Rah-MAH-na-jun.
 Ramanujan‘s mother komalatammal, sangs bhajans or
devotional songs at nearby temple with her husband.
 Ramanujan would bear the scars of his childhood.

10.  Ramanujan’s Family was a case study in the damning
statistics.
 Kumbakonam was notorious for its bad water
 In a dispute over a loan, his grandfather quit his job
and left kanchipuram

11. A BRAHMIN BOYHOOD
 Kumbakonam was a bed rock of brahanism, the
traditional hinduism associated with its priestly caste.
 There were castes these accounts recorded :
1. Brahmins
2. Kshatriya
3. Vaisyas
4. Sudras

12. • There were the castes of agricultural workers ,barbers,
weavers,carpenters.
• Further theological nuances for example – over just
how much effort was needed to secure divine grace-lay
in the between its TELENGALAI and VEDAGALAI.
• Ramanujan wore a caste mark on his forehead- the
namam
• Caste barriers rose highest at meal time.

13. OFF SCALE
 Ramanujan studied English an early age in November
1897.
 He passed his primary examination-English Tamil
Arithmatic and geography.
 In the Early 1900, as now English was ascendant in
India.

14.  One day the maths teacher pointed out that any thing
divided by itself was one:
 Ramanujan learned from an older boy how to solve
cubic equations.
 Ramanujan was being Awarded K.Ranganatha Rao
prize for Mathematics.