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Monday, March 2, 2009

Srinivasa Ramanujan


Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of the greatest mathematician India has ever produced. He was
born in a poor brahmin family on Dec 1887. Due to lack of scope he started his career as
a clerk.In 1903 he got a scholarship from the University of Madras. In 1918 he became the
first Indian to b a fellow to the Royal Society of London. He died at Chelput in Madras on
26 april,1920.