Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on 22 December, 1887 in Tamil Nadu’s Erode.

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His birth anniversary is celebrated as National Mathematics Day due to his contributions to the field.

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The genius mathematician used to fail in other subjects except mathematics during his school times.

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He worked out the Riemann series, the elliptic integrals, hypergeometric series, and many more with his own ‘Ramanujan Summation’ technique.

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Ramanujan found out that ‘1729’ was the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.

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G.H. Hardy described Ramanujan’s mathematical ability as ‘100’, his own ‘25’ and David Hilbert’s ‘80’.

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An award named after him, Ramanujan Award, is awarded annually to young brilliant mathematicians.

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A movie ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ starring Dev Patel in the lead was released on Ramanujan’s life.

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His biography ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’, written by Robert Kanigel, describes his life.

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He is said to have independently gathered 3,900 results and developed his own theorems.

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