SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN

EARLY LIFE

• Born on December 22, 1887
• Lived in the town of Erode, near the southeast of India
• His father was an accounting clerk and his mother was a singer
• His family were Brahmins, Hindu caste of priests and scholars

EARLY EDUCATION

• Attended high school at the age of ten
• He used self-study to learn mathematics and solve equations
• Discovered a personal method of solving quartic equations
• He fascinated classmates with his ability to preform complex problems

EDUCATION

• Attended Government Arts College on a scholarship
• Enrolled at Pachaiyappa’s College but failed classes other than mathematics
• Reached the University of Madras and gained a grant from Trinity College, Cambridge
• Managed to work out the Riemann series, elliptic integrals, hyper geometric, and the functional equations of the zeta function
• Awarded with a Bachelor of Science degree

LATER LIFE

• Married Janaki Ammal in 1909
• She was just ten years old
• Studies at the University of Cambridge in England
• Became ill from the weather
• Diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1917
• Returned to India and passed away at the age of thirty-two on April 26, 1920

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Left behind numerous of unpublished notebooks that people have continued to study
• Labled as a mathematical genius
• Completed a seventeen page paper of Bernoulli numbers that was published in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society
• Produced the new method for finding the asymptotic formulae, known as the circle method

The Ramanujan theta function

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