Mathematic geniuses biography

(1887-1920)

Who Was Srinivasa Ramanujan?

After demonstrating an intuitive grasp of mathematics at a young age, Srinivasa Ramanujan began to develop his own theories and in 1911, he published his first paper in India.

Two years later Ramanujan began a correspondence with British mathematician G. H. Hardy that resulted in a five-year-long mentorship for Ramanujan at Cambridge, where he published numerous papers on his work and received a B.S.

for research.

Mathematic geniuses biography

His early work focused on infinite series and integrals, which extended into the remainder of his career. After contracting tuberculosis, Ramanujan returned to India, where he died in 1920 at 32 years of age.

Early Life

Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on December 22, 1887, in Erode, India, a small village in the southern part of the country.

Shortly after this birth, his family moved to Kumbakonam, where his father worked as a clerk in a cloth shop. Ramanujan attended the local grammar school and high schoo