Event Detail
- Start Date 12/22/2022
- Start Time 10:00 AM
- End Date 12/22/2022
- End Time 12:00 PM
- Location B-Block Seminar Hall
Every year, 22 December is observed as National Mathematics Day to mark the birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a renowned Indian mathematician. Mathematics Day is marked to celebrate his works and recognize him as a legend in mathematics.
National Mathematics Day is an occasion to remember Ramanujan’s great achievements and reflect on the significance of mathematics in our everyday lives.
Srinivasa Ramanujan was born to a Tamil Brahmin family in 1887 at Erode in Tamil Nadu. Ramanujan is fondly known as the man who knew infinity.
Ramanujan’s Contributions:
He made diverse contributions to the theory of numbers and mathematical functions.
He conceived of divergent series, the Riemann series, the hypergeometric series, the elliptic integrals, and the functional equations of the zeta function.
The number 1729 is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number.