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  • Great Mathematician S Ramanujan was remembered on his death anniversary.

 

  • About S Ramanujan (1887 - 1920)
    • Born in Erode (Tamil Nadu)
    • He never received any formal mathematics training and most of his mathematical discoveries were based on intuition.

 

  • Key Contributions
    • Ramanujan's contributions to mathematical fields include complex analysis, number theory, infinite series, continued fractions, game theory, etc.
    • 1729 is known as the Ramanujan number.
      • It is the smallest number that could be expressed as sum of two cubes in two different ways, i.e, 103+93 and 13+ 123.

 

  • National Mathematics Day (December 22) is observed on his birth anniversary.

 

  • Values: Scientism, Perseverance and Dedication, Curiosity, etc.

 

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