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Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan


           Ramanujan  was very famous Indian Scientist. He was born on 22 December 1887 in the city Erode, Madras. His father, K. Srinivasa Iyengar worked as a clerk in a sari shop . His mother, Komalatammal was a housewife and also sang at a local temple. They lived in Sarangapani Street in a traditional home in the town of Kumbakonam. The family home is now a museum.




            Ramanujan was awarded a B.A. degree by research (this degree was later renamed PhD) in March 1916 for his work on highly composite numbers, which was published as a paper in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society. The paper was over 50 pages with different properties of such numbers proven. It was one of the most unusual papers seen in mathematical research at that time and that Ramanujan showed extraordinary ingenuity in handling it. On 6 December 1917, he was elected to the London Mathematical Society. 

                 He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918, becoming the second Indian to do so, following Ardaseer Cursetjee in 1841, and he was one of the youngest Fellows in the history of the Royal Society. He was elected "for his investigation in Elliptic functions and the Theory of Numbers." On 13 October 1918, he became the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

              He died 1919 at the age of 32 due to. tuberculosis and a severe vitamin deficiency.