SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN IYENGAR
1887-1920
THE MATHEMATICAL GENIUS FROM INDIA
Ramanujan was born on December 22, 1887, at Erode, to
Komalathammal and K. Srinivasa Iyengar, who was an accountant to a cloth
merchant in Kumbakonam. He attended school there and did averagely well. While in
school he came across a book entitled “A synopsis of elementary results in Pure
and Applied Mathematics by George Carr”.