Srinivasa Ramanujan
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Srinivasa Ramanujan 🇮🇳

ஸ்ரீனிவாஸ ராமானுஜன் (Known as "The Man Who Knew Infinity")
Pure Mathematician, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Society
Born 22 December 1887 🇮🇳 Erode (Madras Presidency), India
Passed Away 26 April 1920 Kumbakonam (Madras Presidency), India
Lifespan 32 years old
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"An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God. No one would have had the imagination to invent them if they were not true."

Archival Overview

Prodigious Indian mathematician whose notebooks of nearly 3,900 intuitive identities, modular forms, mock theta functions, and partition formulas transformed modern number theory.

Biographical Record

Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920) grew up in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu. With almost no formal training in pure mathematics, Ramanujan developed thousands of astonishing theorems in solitude. In 1913, he sent a letter containing over 100 theorems to English mathematician G. H. Hardy at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Hardy immediately recognized his transcendent genius, bringing him to Cambridge. Ramanujan compiled notebooks containing nearly 3,900 identities, including asymptotic formulas for integer partitions, rapidly converging series for π, and mock theta functions that today find profound applications in black hole thermodynamics and string theory.

Key Life Milestones

16 January 1913 CE

Historic Letter to G. H. Hardy

Sent the historic letter to Hardy at Cambridge containing 120 mathematical formulas, leading to his Cambridge fellowship.

2 May 1918 CE

Fellow of the Royal Society

Elected Fellow of the Royal Society at age 30, one of the youngest fellows in history and first Indian Fellow of Trinity.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Chetpet Cremation Memorial (Sacred Memorial)
Kumbakonam (Madras Presidency), India
GPS: 13.0694, 80.2378
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