National Mathematics Day Ramanujan: On December 22, every year, India celebrates Mathematics Day. A very special day to honor India's one of the greatest mathematicians - Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Mr Ramanujan left a lasting mark on the field of mathematics with his unparalleled insights and discoveries. Among his major achievements, his work in number theory stands out prominently.

Srinivasa Ramanujan was born in southern India in 1887 to a Brahmin father who worked as a clerk in a fabric store. From the beginning, the boy excelled in mathematics and in English.

(Hardy, a mathematical giant in his own right, is said to have quipped that his greatest contribution to mathematics was the discovery of Ramanujan.) Before Ramanujan died in 1920 at the age of 32, he ...

An intuitive mathematical genius, Ramanujan's discoveries have influenced several areas of mathematics, but he is probably most famous for his contributions to number theory and infinite series, ...

Consider the story of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Between 1913 and 1920, this impoverished clerk from South India—a two-time college dropout—upended mathematics with strange and ...

SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN was a mathematician like no other. He had almost no formal training yet produced some of the most stunning mathematical results of all time. This month marks the 100th ...

Ramanujan, a self-taught mathematician born in a rural village in South India, spent so much time thinking about math that he flunked out of college in India twice, Ono said.