a short presentation on Srinivasa Ramanujan

1. •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.

2. •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.

3. •Ramanujan continued to •Ramanujan was appointed
develop his mathematical ideas
and began to pose problems to the post of clerk and
and solve problems in the began his duties on 1 March
Journal of the Indian 1912.
Mathematical Society.
•Ramanujan was quite lucky
•He developed relations
between elliptic modular to have a number of people
equations in 1910. working round him with
•In 1912 Ramanujan applied for training in mathematics.
the post of clerk in the accounts •He died on 26th April 1920 in
section of the Madras Port Kumbakonam.
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