National Mathematics Day 2021 today: Occasion to commemorate Srinivas Ramanujan's birth anniversary
Highlights
- India is celebrating National Mathematics Day 2021 today.
- It is celebrated to remember Srinivas Ramanujan on his birth anniversary (December 22).
- In 2012, then PM Manmohan Singh had declared this day as National Mathematics Day.
National Mathematics Day 2021: India is celebrating National Mathematics Day today to commemorate the 144th birth anniversary of ace mathematician Srinivas Ramanujan who was born on December 22, 1887.
Here's all you need to know about the day, and Ramanujan:
- Srinivas Ramanujan was born on December 22, 1887, at Erode, Tamil Nadu in a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family.
- His excellence at Mathematics was recognized after he started working as a clerk in the Madras Port Trust in 1912.
- His colleague there referred Ramanujan to Professor GH Hardy of Trinity College, Cambridge University.
- Ramanujan received a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree from Trinity College in 1916.
- He was elected to the London Mathematical Society in 1917.
- In 1918, he became the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College. In 1919 he returned back to India.
- Unfortunately, he breathed his last a year later, aged 32.
- The 2015 movie 'The Man Who Knew Infinity' was released based on Srinivasa Ramanujan’s biography
- Ramanujan his own theorems and independently compiled 3900 results.
- In 2012, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared December 22 as National Mathematics Day to honor Srinivas Ramanujan.
