,Srinivasa Ramanujan

Mathematician SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN AIYANGAR used to say ' An equation means nothing to me unless it express a thought of god' Ramanuja .

• The Indian mathematician made substancial contribution to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions,continued fractions, and infinite series .S.R.Ramnujan is best known for his work in hypergeometry and continued fractions.
• Ramanujan ,born into a poor family of brahmin at irode inon Dec.22,1887,attended school in nearby Kumbakonam. By the time he was 13 ,he could solve unaided every problem in Loney;s Trignometry,and at 14 he obtain the theorems for the sine and the coisine that had been anticipated by L.Eular .
• In 1903 he came upon George Shoobridge Carr's Synopsis of Elimentary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics.The book'its coverage reaching 1860,opened a whole new worldto him'and he set out to establish the 6,165 theorems in it for himself having no contact with other good books ,he had to do Original research for each solution. Trying to device them several new algebraic series.
• In 1911 he started to publish some of his results.
• In January 1913 Rmanujan sent some of his work to G.H.Hardy,Cayley lecture in mathematics at Cambridge . Hardy noticed that whereas Ramanujan had rediscovered , and gone gone for beyond,some of the latest conclusions of western mathematician,he was completely ignorant of western mathematician, he was completely ignorant of some of the most fundamental areas.In may the University of Madras gave Ramanujan a scholarship .
• In 1914 Ramanujan went to Cambridge .The universities experience gave him considerable sophistication , but his mind , by this time somewhat hardened,generally continued continued to work according to the old pattern ,in which intutions play more important role than argument. In Hardy's opinion ,if Ramanujan's gift had been recognised early,he could have become one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. In hypergeometric series and continued fractions ,"he was unquestionably and intutions made him the greatast formalist of his day . But his passionate ,profolic,and in some ways profound work in the theory of numbers and his ways profound work in the theory of numbers and his ways profound work in the theory of numbers and his work in analysis were seriously marred by misdevelopment.
• In 1918 Ramnujan was elected a fellow of the Royal Society and o fellow of Trinity College,Cambridge.
• He died on April 26,1920.