Birth Anniversary of the greatest Mathematical geniuses, Srinivasa Ramanujan
22nd December 1887 to 26th April 1920
We at Birla Balika Vidyapeeth celebrate this day every year by motivating our children to participate in various interesting activities and also explore the anecdotes from the life of the Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
This year the event was celebrated on virtual Platform
Students enthusiastically contributed for the virtual celebration showcasing their interest towards Mathematics.
The Juniors made beautiful Rangolis using mathematical shapes integrating Art with Mathematics. Our Middle School students tried their expertise on portrait making by sketching the Mathematician.
The Secondary Section displayed presentations on online symposium competition.
An Inter house online Panel Quiz "Hunky Brains - Part 3" triggered the Mathematical brain of participating students of class XII.
Students also displayed creative blogs, presentation on the life story of Mathematician and Review of the movie on Srinivasa Ramanujan "The Man who knew infinity"
Let us know about Srinivasa Ramanujan from Vanshika Phogat VII A
Srinivasa Ramanujan, (born December 22, 1887, Erode, India—died April 26, 1920, Kumbakonam), Indian mathematician whose contributions to the theory of numbers include pioneering discoveries of the properties of the partition function.
When he was 15 years old, he obtained a copy of George Shoobridge Carr’s Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2 vol. (1880–86). This is a collection of thousands of theorems, many presented with only the briefest of proofs and with no material newer than 1860, aroused his genius. Having verified the results in Carr’s book, Ramanujan went beyond it, developing his own theorems and ideas. In 1903 he secured a scholarship to the University of Madras but lost it the following year because he neglected all other studies in pursuit of Mathematics.
Ramanujan continued his work, without employment and living in the poorest circumstances. After marrying in 1909 he began a search for permanent employment that culminated in an interview with a government official, Ramachandra Rao. Impressed by Ramanujan’s mathematical prowess, Rao supported his research for a time, but Ramanujan, unwilling to exist on charity, obtained a clerical post with the Madras Port Trust.
In 1911 Ramanujan published the first of his papers in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society. His genius slowly gained recognition, and in 1913 he began a correspondence with the British mathematician Godfrey H. Hardy that led to a special scholarship from the University of Madras and a grant from Trinity College, Cambridge. Overcoming his religious objections, Ramanujan traveled to England in 1914, where Hardy tutored him and collaborated with him in some research.
Ramanujan’s knowledge of mathematics (most of which he had worked out for himself) was startling. Although he was almost completely unaware of modern developments in mathematics, his mastery of continued fractions was unequaled by any living mathematician. He worked out the Riemann series, the elliptic integrals, hypergeometric series, the functional equations of the zeta function, and his own theory of divergent series.
In England Ramanujan made further advances, especially in the partition of numbers (the number of ways that a positive integer can be expressed as the sum of positive integers; e.g., 4 can be expressed as 4, 3 + 1, 2 + 2, 2 + 1 + 1, and 1 + 1 + 1 + 1). His papers were published in English and European journals, and in 1918 he was elected to the Royal Society of London. In 1917 Ramanujan had contracted tuberculosis, but his condition improved sufficiently for him to return to India in 1919. He died the following year, generally unknown to the world at large but recognized by mathematicians as a phenomenal genius, without peer since Leonhard Euler (1707–83) and Carl Jacobi (1804–51). Ramanujan left behind three notebooks and a sheaf of pages (also called the “lost notebook”) containing many unpublished results that mathematicians continued to verify long after his death.
Shreya Kasana from Class XI A is sharing the importance of National Mathematics Day
In India National Mathematics Day is observed on 22nd December every year to honor the Birth Anniversary of famous Mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced to celebrate this day as National Mathematics Day when he was addressing the Inaugural Function of 125th Anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujans Birthday at Madras University in 2012. He also declared 2012 as National Mathematics Year.
The importance of the day further enhanced when in 2017 Ramanujan Math Park was Inaugurated in Kuppam, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh.
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the first Indian to be elected as fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and at the age of 31, Ramanujan was the youngest fellow in the history of Royal Society to be elected as fellow.
The main aim of celebrating this day is to foster scientific temperament among the youth and encourage them to take baby steps in Mathematics and explore its application in the sphere of Economics, Science and other disciplines.
UNESCO is working in collaboration with Mathematics fraternity in India to spread joy of learning and understanding Mathematics. Various events are organized across the country with different theme which is a welcome move and hone the mathematical skill of future generations.
By celebrating National Mathematics Day on the Birth Anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan, we would pay tribute to this legend and would be able to sustain the mathematical culture of our country India.
Jiya Khurana Class XII expresses her views on the movie "The man who knew infinity"
THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY is a 2015, biographical drama film about the indian mathematician SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN.
SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN was born and brought up in a Brahmin family in Erode in INDIA during the British rule. He was an Indian mathematician with no formal training and degrees.
Ramanujan is a struggling citizen of madras living at the edge of poverty. After having discovered his exceptional skills at mathematics, he began with doing his own research and personal writings in mathematics. He contacted several professors of mathematics at universities by writing to them.
G.H. Hardy, a famous mathematician at university of Cambridge, begins to take special interest in Ramanujan and his work. Being invited to Cambridge was a golden opportunity for him to show cast his talent, even though this would cost him to leave his wife and break the laws of his caste, to which he is bound.
He encounters various problems in the form of racial discrimination and finds his adjustment hard and more difficult than expected. Though the fact that hardy was quite impressed him, motivated him to stay despite all odds.
Since Ramanujan had no degree it was hard for Hardy to get him published, but with perseverance he gets Ramanujan published in a major journal.
Ramanujan writes letters to his wife which remains unanswered from many months, in the meantime he also finds that he is suffering from tuberculosis.
Though this disease does not affect his work instead Hardy sees a promising personality in him, but is unaware of his personal and health conditions. Ramanujan's health worsens while he continues delving into deeper and more profound research interests in mathematics under the guidance of Hardy and others at Cambridge.
His wife, Janaki initially thinks that her husband has forgotten her but later discovers that his mother has been intercepting his letters to her.
Later, after learning from his family, and having support of Hardy as a friend as well as mentor, Hardy nominates him as a Fellow of Royal Society (FRS) and then as a fellow of trinity college.
There comes a day when Ramanujan ships back to India and reunites with his family. His health worsens, and he departed to heaven all too soon after his recognition as a mathematician of international merit and importance.
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