Today is National Mathematics Day 2022; learn about its significance and honor Srinivasa Ramanujan.
National Mathematics Day 2022: To commemorate the anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan’s birth, former prime minister Manmohan Singh announced December 22 to be the National Mathematics Day on February 26, 2012.
On December 22, the country as a whole observes National Mathematics Day. Srinivasa Ramanujan’s contributions are recognized and honored on National Mathematics Day. On this day in 1887, Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician, was born. In Erode, Tamil Nadu, Ramanujan was born into a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family.
In honour of the Indian mathematician’s birth anniversary, the former prime minister Manmohan Singh designated December 22 as National Mathematics Day on February 26, 2012.
Another moniker for Srinivasa Ramanujan is “the man who knew infinity.” Despite having no academic education in mathematics, Ramanujan has made a number of significant contributions to the subject.
When Srinivasa Ramanujan wrote a letter to a professor mentioning roughly 120 mathematical theorems, his quest to becoming a genius began. A few months prior to the outbreak of World War 1, he enrolled at Trinity College. Ramanujan received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1916.
He was chosen to join the London Mathematical Society in 1917. He was chosen as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918 for his work on the theory of numbers and elliptic functions. He was elected as the first Indian to be a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in October of the same year.
Due to his failing health, he had to return to India in 1919. A year later, on April 26, 1920, he passed away at the age of 32.