A Mathematician to remember- Srinivasa Ramanujan

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A Mathematician to remember- Srinivasa Ramanujan
S Ramanujan’s 127th birth anniversary being celebrated
as ‘National Mathematics Day’

As someone said “Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers”

Well, most of us really don’t believe this. We feel dreaded with subject called Mathematics almost throughout our life. However, there was one genius for whom numbers and equations were a Child’s play.  December 22 or National Mathematics Day is celebrated to mark the anniversary of this fantastic Mathematics genius; Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Born on December 22, 1887 in the town of Erode in Tamil Nadu, Ramanujan was largely self-taught and emerged from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century. He extraordinarily contributed to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series , and continued fractions.

The credit for all the mathematics development of our 20th century mathematics is credited to Ramanujan’s final writings, theories and developments.  Before an early death at age 32, Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3900 results.

As heard, now the National Math day will be termed as GANIT (Mathematics in English) which is an acronym for Growing Aptitude in Numerical Innovations & Training. A new gaming app was also launched to pay tribute to Ramanujan’s love for numbers. The app was proposed by Hey Math, which educates the player on Ramanujan and his contribution through nine magic tiles which the player needs to unlock using mathematical reasoning.

A big thanks to Ramanujan for instilling our faith on numbers and theories!

Check Mathematics Books at https://www.phindia.com/showBooks.php?cid=219&catname=Mathematics

 

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