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Srinivasa Ramanujan

Indian mathematician (1887–1920).

Born December 22nd, 1887 in Erode.

Died April 26th, 1920 at 32 years old in Kumbakonam (amebiasis).

Occupations
mathematician

Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the most influential mathematicians of the modern era, passed away on April 26th, 1920 in India at the age of 32. Born on December 22nd, 1887, in Erode, India, Ramanujan had a knack for mathematics since his early childhood, but received no formal education due to his family's poverty. Despite this, he developed various mathematical results independently and by the age of 11 he had discovered the Bernoulli numbers and calculated Euler's constant. His mathematical talents led him to becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society at just 24 years of age, and in 1918 he became the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Ramanujan made immense contributions to mathematics, number theory, and infinite series, and worked in close collaboration with mathematician G. H. Hardy at Cambridge. These achievements have impacted mathematics to this day and changed and expanded the understanding of mathematical principles. His notable works include the partition function and mock theta functions, working in collaboration with Hardy to prove the Hardy-Ramanujan-Littlewood Circle Method, and the Ramanujan Prime. Ramanujan's death at such a young age should be remembered for his immense contributions to mathematics that are still being built upon today.

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