Ramanujan, Srinivasa
From Astro-Databank
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| Birthname | Ayengar, Srinivasa Ramanuja | ||
| born on | 22 December 1887 at 18:20 (= 6:20 PM ) | ||
| Place | Erode, India, 11n21, 77e44 | ||
| Timezone | m80e15 (is standard time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   00°25'   03°08 Asc. 07°31'
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Biography
Indian mathematician, one of the outstanding math minds of history who contributed to the theory of number, of partitions and the theory of continued fractions.
Educated at the Government College at Kumbakonam, he obtained a scholarship for the University of Madras, but after his marriage in 1909, became a clerk in the Madras Port trust.
The recognition of his genius began when he wrote to G.H. Hardy at Trinity 1/16/1913 and Hardy replied 2/08/1913. His correspondence with Hardy led to another scholarship from Madras and a grant from Trinity, Cambridge, England. He left India by boat 3/17/1913 and arrived in London 4/14/1913 in spite of great difficulties caused by his caste as a Braman. His diet and religious observations were compromised by the great difference in life style to which he had to adapt.
Hardy helped him get into his original work, but the isolation of his life and difficulties in diet caused him great stress. He became ill in 1917, and in January 1918, tried to kill himself by throwing himself in front of a train. Rescued, he struggled on until he was able to return to India in 1919.
Ramanujan's notebooks were published in 1957, and his "Collected Papers" published in 1927 and 1962.
He died 4/26/1920, Kumbakonam.
Events
- Death by Disease 26 April 1920 (Tuberculosis, age 32)
- Social : Begin Travel 17 March 1913 (Left India, went to London)
- Family : Change residence April 1913 (Arrived in London)
- Relationship : Meet a significant person 8 February 1913 (First response from G.H. Hardy, correspondence begun)
- Mental Health : Anxiety attack February 1918 (Ill and depressed, isolated and lonely)
- Death : Suicide Attempt February 1918 (Tried to thrown self under train in London)
- Social : Return Home 1919 (Returned to India)
Source Notes
LMR quotes Robert Kanigel "The Man Who Knew Infinity" p.11, "just after sunset." Sunset is 5:48 PM Madras time.
Categories
- Vocation : Science : Mathematics/ Statistics (Mathmatician)
- Traits : Body : Diet unusual (Diet dictated by his religion as a Braham)
- Traits : Mind : Exceptional mind (Mathematical genius)
- Notable : Famous : Historic figure (Math genius)
- Lifestyle : Work : Work alone/ Singular role (Isolated by his singular work and being away from own culture)
- Traits : Mind : Education extensive (Madras scholarship, Trinity grant)
- Traits : Body : Race (East Indian)
- Diagnoses : Psychological : Nervous Breakdown
- Personal : Death : Suicide Attempt (Threw himself in front of train)
- Notable : Extraordinary Talents : For Numbers (Genius in mathematician)
- Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession
- Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Eastern (Brahman)
- Traits : Personality : Solitary/ Introvert (Culturally and intellectually isolated)
