Posted on 12/23/2023 8:00:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
National Mathematics Day 2023 is celebrated on December 22 every year. Check the timeline of events in Srinivasa Ramanujan's life. December 22 is celebrated as National Mathematics Day every year. This date marks the birth anniversary of legendary mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Mathematics is a part of our everyday lives and celebrating this day makes it even more special.
The celebration of this day began in 2012 when then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared December 22 as National Mathematics Day to honor the life and achievements of Ramanujan in the field of Mathematics.
Know about Srinivasa Ramanujan’s life and his works in the timeline given here.
1887: The great mathematician was born on this day in Tamil Nadu’s Erode to a Brahmin Iyengar family. Since his childhood days, he had a liking for mathematics which led him to master trigonometry at the age of 12. He was also eligible for a scholarship at the Government Arts College in Kumbakonam.
1912: Srinivasa Ramanujan started to work as a clerk in Madras Port Trust in 1912. There, his mathematics genius was recognized by some of his colleagues and one of them referred him to Professor GH Hardy of Trinity College, Cambridge University. He met Hardy in 1913, after which he went to Trinity College.
1916: This year the Ramanujan received his Bachelor in Science degree. After this, he published several papers on his subject with Hardy’s help.
1917: Ramanujan was elected to the London Mathematical Society.
1918: The great mathematician was elected to the prestigious Royal Society for his research on Elliptic Functions and theory of numbers. He was also the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of the Trinity College.
1919: Ramanujan returned to India.
1920: On April 26, he breathed his last owing to deteriorating health. He was just 32 years old.
Srinivasa Ramanujan never received any formal training in pure maths, but he made impactful contribution in the field of mathematics. His areas of work include infinite series, continued fractions, number theory and mathematical analysis. He also made notable contributions like the hypergeometric series, the Riemann series, the elliptic integrals, the theory of divergent series, and the functional equations of the zeta function. He is said to have discovered his own theorems and independently compiled 3,900 results.
He is a math guru.
Ramanujan’s story is told in the 2015 movie, “The Man Who Knew Infinity”, based on the book of the same title.
maff be raciss yo
Was it good?
I have been privileged to know some people who did math better than me.
whatever. I use an RPN calculator and do math the proper way.
Yes, excellent. I have the DVD.
Yup—math is pure hate—and does not care about people.
;-)
I was so terrified & nervous over math. In 6th grade I dreaded going to the board to work a problem.
I always enjoy reading about Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Actually there are 10 kinds. Those who know binary and those who don’t.
He was really much more than a math guru. He independently rediscovered theorums in his short adult life that collectively took others hundreds of years, and charted new ground as well.
It's always a pleasure to learn of another fellow RPN fan.
I first obtained an HP RPN calculator in the 70's and have had one ever since. My second significant C program in the 80's was a programmable RPN calculator for UNIX, that I eventually ported to every computer I've used since (Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.). I cannot abide being forced to use algebraic on a computer. Fortunately there exists an app for iOS that emulates a 15C, so my phone and tablet can carry on sane math operations.
Math is hard. 😉
Remember in the 90s, when a Barbie said, "math is hard."
You can’t square a circle exactly. This fellow came up with a way to do it with seven digit precision. Finding the perimeter length of an elipse defies any finate equation but this fellow came up with a pretty good approximation.
“Remember in the 90s, when a Barbie said, ‘math is hard.’”
LOL! That’s funny. I don’t recall, but I never was in to Barbie, or around kids who were. I was just a couple years too old for dolls when Barbies came out.
I do recall bumper stickers in the ‘80s or ‘90s that said, “I hate Barbie. That bitch has everything.”
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