Biography of Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar was an Indian mathematician. He made remarkable contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, continued fractions and discoveries of the properties of the Partition Function. He was beyond his time and era. Early life and Education On December 22, 1887, Ramanujan was born into a Tamil Brahmin family in Erode, Madras Presidency (now in Tamilnadu, India). His father Kuppuswamy Srinivasa Iyengar was a clerk in a Sari shop. His mother, Komalarammal was a housewife and worked as a singer at a local temple. He moved with his mother to her parents' house in Kanchipuram near Madras at the age of only two. Ramanujan was admitted to a local school near his grandparents' house in 1892. But unfortunately, he could not continue his study there. So they had to move back to Kumbakonam. There he enrolled in Kangayan Primary School. He was unlucky this time as well. When his paternal grandfather died, he was sent back to his maternal grandp...