Author: Saanvi  l Rao, Grade – VI, Vels Global School, Nerkundram.

Ramanujan was always ahead of the formal education that was taught during his time. His passion for numbers, therefore, not only took him ahead of everyone else of his age but also in a completely different direction.

Srinivasan Ramanujan was born on 22.12.1887 and died on 26.04.1920. He was an Indian Mathematician who lived during British Rule in India.

Even though he had no formal training in pure mathematics he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and solutions to mathematical problems the considered unsolvable.

He initially developed his mathematical research in isolation. At the age of 15, he obtained a mathematics book containing thousands of theorems which he verified and from which he developed his ideas.

In 1914, he went to England to study at Trinity College Cambridge with British Mathematician  G H Hardy.

Indian Mathematician Shrinivasan Ramanujan made contributions to the theory of numbers including pioneering discoveries of the properties of the partition function.

In 1918 he was elected to the Royal School of London.