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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 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...

Srinivasa Ramanujan made productive contributions to elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series, and the analytical theory of numbers. In 1902, he solved cubic equations and used his own theory to solve quartic.

National Mathematics Day 2021: Srinivasa Ramanujan was so disinterested in non-mathematical subjects that he failed his college exams in 1903, years before he joined Trinity College of Cambridge

Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician who made pioneering contributions to number theory. He devised his own theory of divergent series, in which he found a value for the sum of such series using a technique he invented that came to be called Ramanujan summation.

Some things to know about one of the world’s greatest mathematicians.