Biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
                     BIOGRAPHY OF 
SRINIVASA 
RAMANUJAN
SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN
Srinivisa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician 
whose contribution to the theory of numbers include 
pioneering discoveries of the properties of partition 
function.
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BIRTH 
Ramanujan was born to a Tamil Brahmin family on 22 
December 1887 in the town of Erode in erstwhile 
Madras Presidency. His did his early schooling in 
Kanchipuram and Kumbakonam.
GENIUS
By age 11, he had exhausted the mathematical 
knowledge of two college students who were lodgers 
at his home. He was later lent a book written by S. L. 
Loney on advanced trigonometry. He mastered this by 
the age of 13 while discovering sophisticated 
theorems on his own.
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EDUCATION
When he graduated from Town Higher Secondary 
School in 1904, Ramanujan was awarded the K. 
Ranganatha Rao prize for mathematics by the school's 
headmaster, Krishnaswami Iyer. 
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HIGHER EDUCATION
He received a scholarship to study at Government 
Arts College in Kumbakonam, but was so intent on 
mathematics that he was not interested in any other 
subjects, failed all of them and lost the scholarship.
STUDYING IN MADRAS
He then ran away from home to Visakhapatnam, 
stayed there for a month and went to Madras, where 
he enrolled in a college and performed poorly in all 
other subjects except Mathematics where he 
answered only the questions he liked.
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CAREER IN MATHEMATICS
 In 1910 Ramanujan met deputy collector V. 
Ramaswamy Iyer, who founded the Indian 
Mathematical Society. When he saw Ramanujan’s 
notebooks, he was awestruck and sent him to Iyer’s 
mathematician friends in Madras.
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LIFE IN ENGLAND
As Ramanujan’s work became popular, he was 
considered a true genius and that led to him being 
asked to do his research at Cambridge, which he 
initially denied but then left Madras in 1914. He spent 
5 years in research there and was awared a PhD 
equivalent degree.
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ILLNESS AND DEATH
Throughout his life, Ramanujan was plagued by illness 
and it got worse in England. He was diagnosed with 
tuberculosis and severe vitamin deficiency. He 
returned to India in 1919 and died in 1920 at the age 
of 32.
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