Srinivasa Ramanujam

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Srinivasa Ramanujam

• Ramanujam was born on December 27, 1887, in
  Erode.
• He was a very great and famous mathematician.
• He made contributions to the analytical theory of
  numbers.
• His father worked in Kumbakonam as a clerk in a
  cloth merchant's shop.
• When he was nearly five years old, Ramanujam
  entered the primary school.

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• The following year, not knowing that the quintic
  could not be solved by radicals, he tried (and of
  course failed) to solve the quintic.
• Ramanujan, on the strength of his good
  schoolwork, was given a scholarship to the
  Government College in Kumbakonam, which he
  entered in 1904.
• Without money he was soon in difficulties and,
  without telling his parents, he ran away to the
  town of Vizagapatnam about 650 km north of
  Madras.
• He married on 14 July 1909 when his mother
  arranged for him to marry a ten year old girl S
  Janaki Ammal. Ramanujan did not live with his
  wife, however, until she was twelve years old.

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• Ramanujan continued to develop his mathematical
  ideas and began to pose problems and solve
  problems in the Journal of the Indian
  Mathematical Society.
• He developed relations between elliptic modular
  equations in 1910.
• In 1912 Ramanujan applied for the post of clerk
  in the accounts section of the Madras Port Trust.
  

• Ramanujan was appointed to the post of clerk and
  began his duties on 1 March 1912.
• Ramanujan was quite lucky to have a number of
  people working round him with training in
  mathematics.
• He died on 26th April 1920 in Kumbakonam.

By Savitri