5 DAYS WRITING CHALLENGE - MEET A GENIUS - SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN -(BY @Kingreechy) -(DAY 5)

Good day steemians, I hope you all are doing great. I welcome you all once again to my blog. This is my final entry in this contest and In this post I will be reviewing the life of “The man who knew infinity”; “Srinivasa Ramanujan”. Enjoy!

INTRODUCTION

A genius, can be referred to as a person known for his/her extraordinary intellectual ability making a great impact in the development of study or research.

BACKGROUND PROFILE OF SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN

Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on December 22, 1887, in Erode, India, it was a small village in the southern part of the country. His father was a clerk in a cloth shop at Kumbakonam where the family moved to shortly after his birth. Ramanujan attended a local grammar school and high school and later on he demonstrated an affinity for mathematics.
When he was 15, he obtained an out-of-date book called A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Ramanujan obsessively started studying its thousands of theorems before moving on to formulate many of his own theorems. At the end of high school, his outstanding performance earned him a scholarship to the Government College in Kumbakonam but due to his devotion to mathematics solely which led to poor grades in other courses, he lost his scholarship but despite these setbacks, Ramanujan continued to make strides in his mathematical work.

SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

In 1913 he was able to secure a research scholarship at the University of Madras as well as a grant from Cambridge but one can say that Ramanujan was self thought in terms of his passion for Mathematics.

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT OF SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN

S/N	Award/ Recognition	Date
1	published a 17-page paper on Bernoulli numbers in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society	1911
2	Bachelor of science degree for research from Cambridge Award	1916
3	Member of the Royal Society of London	1918
4	37 Published paper	1927

• Ramanujan made many momentous contributions to mathematics especially number theory. Much of his work was done jointly with his benefactor and mentor, G. H. Hardy. Together they began the powerful "circle method" to provide an exact formula for p(n), the number of integer partitions of n. (e.g. p(5)=7 where the seven partitions are 5, 4+1, 3+2, 3+1+1, 2+2+1, 2+1+1+1, 1+1+1+1+1).

• Ramanujan also discovered and proved that 5 always divides p(5n+4), 7 always divides p(7n+5) and 11 always divides p(11n+6). This discovery led to extensive advances in the theory of modular forms."

• In the last year of his life, Ramanujan devoted much of his failing energy to a new kind of function called mock theta functions. They also have many applications to theory, for example, they have applications to the theory of black holes in physics."

• There are many of his earlier theorems that are so complex that the full scope of Ramanujan’s legacy has yet to be completely revealed and his work remains the focus of much mathematical research.

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WHY I CHOSE HIM AS A ROLE MODEL

“An equation for me has no meaning, unless it expresses a thought of God.” _Srinivasa Ramanujan.

• Ramanujan was God personified.
• He was a man with purpose.
• Despite life’s challenges, he thrived at his passion.
• He was a gentle and humble man.
• His drive for his goals was without question.
• He lived a peaceful life.
• He is an inspiration to millions.
• He brought light into mathematics which helped all who passed through school.

CONCLUSION

Ramanujan died of Tuberculosis on April 26, 1920, at the age of 32. Even on his deathbed, he had been consumed by math, writing down a group of theorems that he said had come to him in a dream.
...what a life of a genius!

I specifically ended the contest with this post after I recalled a movie about this great Genius known as “THE MAN THAT KNEW INFINITY” in remembrance of SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN but my story wouldn’t be complete without the knowledge gotten from britannica.com

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Special thanks for this contest. It has been worth the while.
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