New Delhi: December 22 is marked as the National Mathematics Day every year, remembering one of India’s greatest mathematicians Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan, who contributed to explaining the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.
Ramanujan was born on December 22, 1887, in a small village Erode southwest of Chennai in a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family. A student who failed exams due to his negligence for non-mathematical subjects, Ramanujan worked on summing mathematical geometric and arithmetic series.
National Mathematics Day: History
In 2012, the former Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, paid tribute to Srinivasa Ramanujan at a function organised on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the great mathematician Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan in Chennai. 22 December was declared as National Mathematics Day. Thus, on 22 December 2012, National Mathematics Day was celebrated across the country for the first time.
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