Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of India's greatest mathematical geniuses, making substantial contributions to analytical number theory and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series. He was born in 1887 in Tamil Nadu, India and showed great mathematical ability from a young age, though he was unable to complete a college education. Despite his lack of formal training, he gained recognition for his work in mathematics and was elected to the London Mathematical Society in 1918. Ramanujan made many advances in mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. He passed away in 1920 at the young age of 32.