Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar was the son of a petty accountant and a bailiff’s daughter. He grew up in Kumbakonam, where his father worked. At the age of 15 he borrowed a copy of A Synopsis of ...

IN a letter in NATURE (Jan. 20, 1921; vol. 106, p. 661) I took occasion to point out that the year of Ramanujan's birth was given in some notices as 1887 and in others as 1888. I wrote at the time ...

"Since I have no university education, but I have undergone the ordinary school course. After leaving school, I have been employing the spare time at my disposal to work at mathematics..

SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN was a mathematician so great that his name transcends jealousies, the one superlatively great mathematician whom India has produced in the last thousand years. He was born at ...