Abstract
This year is the 125th birth anniversary of Srinivas Ramanujan. The Government of India has declared it, as the year of Mathematics; and his birth date 22nd December has been declared as the National Mathematics Day. On this occasion, this is a tribute to this great mathematician. Srinivas Ramanujan—the man who knew infinity; the man who loved numbers; a natural mathematical genius.
Highlights
The most important international conference of mathematics is, ‘International Congress of Mathematicians’ (ICM); it is hosted by International Mathematical Union (IMU)
I see no reason to doubt that Ramanujan himself will respond fully to the stimulus which contact with Western mathematicians of the highest class will afford him
Ramanujan and Hardy were exact opposites: Ramanujan a theist, his faith in God was so firm that an equation for him had no meaning unless it was expression of a thought of God, Hardy, an atheist, thought mathematics proved otherwise; Ramanujan did not have a good schooling and no education after it, Hardy got the best of education—public school and Cambridge University; Ramanujan was intuition incarnate, Hardy was the apostle of proof; Ramanujan was original and intuitive, he could feel the results, Hardy believed in logic, for him nothing was true unless proved
Summary
This year is the 125th birth anniversary of Srinivas Ramanujan. The Government of India has declared it, as the year of Mathematics; and his birth date 22nd December has been declared as the National Mathematics Day. Srinivas Ramanujan—the man who knew infinity; the man who loved numbers; a natural mathematical genius
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