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Architect of the World
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of India’s greatest
mathematicians. He was born on 22 December
1887 in Erode, India. From a young age, he loved
mathematics. At the age of 15, he found an old
mathematics book and began teaching himself.
Soon, he started making his own theorems and
formulas.
In 1903, he got a scholarship to the University
of Madras, but lost it the next year because he
studied only mathematics and ignored other
subjects. Still, he continued working on his ideas.
In 1911, he published his first paper in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical
Society, which brought him recognition. Later, the University of Madras gave
him a special scholarship, and Trinity College in Cambridge, England, offered
him support. In 1914, he went to England where he worked with the famous
mathematician G.H. Hardy. Together, they published many important research
papers in English and European journals.
Ramanujan’s knowledge was amazing, even though he did not know much
about modern mathematics. Some of his results were wrong, but most showed
his genius.
In 1917, he fell ill with tuberculosis. He returned to India in 1919 and sadly died
on 26 April 1920 in Chennai, at the young age of 32.
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