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Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 in Erode, but was raised in Kumbakonam. He passed his primary school examination in 1897 standing first in the district, and then joined the Town Higher Secondary School. At the age of fifteen, he obtained a copy of George Shoobridge Carr's Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics. This collection of some fifty hundred equations in algbera, calculus, trignometry, and analytical geometry influenced him greatly. In fact, he kept three notebooks between 1903 and 1914, in which he not only verified the results, but also developed his own theorems and ideas. In 1904, he secured a scholarship to attend the Government College in Kumbakonam but lost it the following year when he failed in his FA examination in his pursuit of mathematics. He attended another college but failed again. Though Ramanujan lived in poverty, he continued working on his favourite subject. After his marriage in 1909, he was supported by a government official, Ramachandra Rao, who was impresseed by his passion for mathematics. He later obtained a clerical post with the Madras Port Trust and worked there for about a year. In 1911, Ramanujan published his first of his papers in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society. This paper made him popular in Madras. In 1913, he began corresponding with the British mathematician, Godfrey H. Hardy who helped him obtain a special scholarship from the University of Madras and a grant from Trinity College, Cambridge. He went to England in 1914 and worked with Godfrey H. Hardy on mathematical problems. In March 1916, Ramanujan received his bachelor's degree for his work on 'Highly Composite Numbers'[1] which was published as a paper in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society. In 1918, he become one of the youngest Fellow of the Royal Society of London. He was elected for his investigation in Elliptic Functions and the Theory of Numbers. In 1918, he also became the first Indian to be elected as Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Ramanujan was suffering from tuberculosis and passed away on 26 April 1920 in Chennai. He was only thirty-two years old. GOOD TO KNOW Ramanujan's birth anniversary, 22 December, is celebrated as National Mathematics Day in India. Once, Godfrey took a taxicab to meet Ramanujan, and commented that the license plate number of the taxi was '1791, a rather dull number' . Ramanujan promptly remarked that it was the smallest number to expressed in two different ways as the sum of two cubes: 13 + 123 = 1729 and 93 + 103 = 1729. In 1993, Shri P.K. Srinivasan founded the Ramanujan Museum in the Avvai Academy in Chennai. source: "100 Iconic Indians" by Derek O'Brien
