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God of Mathematics

By Balwant Kumar Srinivasan Ramanujan, who is known as the God of Mathematics.  Who was born on 22th December 1887 AD in a village named Erode, Tamil Nadu, India.  His father's name was Srinivasa Iyengar and mother's name was Komal Devi.  His father was a clerk and mother a homemaker.  He could not speak even after three years of birth and at the age of ten he stood first in the primary school.  He had memorized college level math at the age of eleven.  By the age of thirteen, he learned advanced trigonometry by heart and started making his own theorems.  And at the age of seventeen, he investigated Bernoulli numbers and found the value of Euler's constant up to fifteen decimal places.  In 1913 AD, at the age of twenty-six, he wrote 120 formulas of mathematics and sent them to Professor G H Hardy of England.  Hardy did not pay any special attention at first, but after reading it, he felt that it had been sent by a genius.  And then he ca...