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 called Ramanujan to Cambridge University.  Ramanujan refused to go to England but Hardy somehow convinced him and Ramanujan agreed to go to England.  He was a firm follower of religion and was also a vegetarian.  Due to non-availability of vegetarian food in England, his health deteriorated and he returned to Madras.  He once tried to commit suicide in England, but the police came and saved him at the right time and was about to file a case, when Hardy reached there and saved him by saying that Ramanujan is FRS.  And you cannot send a FRS to jail like this.  Ramanujan actually became FRS after a few days.  In 1918 AD, Ramanujan was elected the youngest FRS.  His birthday is celebrated as IT Day in Tamil Nadu and Mathematics Day all over India.  Ramanujan made about 3884 mathematical formulas at the age of 32, many of which have not been solved even today.  In mathematics, the number 1729 is also known as Ramanujan number.  Ramanujan is also known as The Man Who Knew Infinity because 60% of his major contributions are related to the infinity category.  A famous formula of mathematics written by him is [1+2+3_ _ _=-1/12].