Srinivasa Ramanujan

S Ramanujan was a great mathematician from India. He was born in Erode, Tamil Nadu. He had no formal training in mathematics but he developed many theories and he made an extraordinary contributions in mathematics. By the end of his college life Ramanujan developed some theories. He showed them to many professionals in madras but no one was able to understand and recognize his work. ===

=== Ramanujan met deputy collector V Ramaswamy Aiyer wishing for a job at the revenue department. He showed his own work to Aiyer. Aiyer was amazed by seeing his work. Aiyer suggested to write his work to G H Hardy. Ramanujan sent a letter to Hardy with a introduction and a nine papers of his work. Hardy and his colleague Littlewood surprised by his work, invited him to Trinity college, Cambridge. Ramanujan was very interested to all his works to Hardy. But then being an Indian's work no one was ready to accept his work without proofs. Even Hardy insisted on proofs at first of his work. Prof. Littlewood found a prime number which disobeys the Ramanujan's theory of prime numbers. ===

=== Ramanujan's main contribution in mathematics was "partitions ". He got selected as a fellow of the Royal Society for the investigation in Elliptic functions and Theory of numbers. He was first Indian to be elected a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He got health problems in England due to whether and food. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He died a year after returning from England to India at the age of 32. Many of his papers has been proved to be correct after his death. ===