From zero to infinity

zero to infinity

1. Biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan

2. Solve this 2 4 1 3 4 2 1 3

3. 3 2 4 1 1 4 2 3 4 3 1 2 2 1 3 4

4. In mathematics class teacher said the student to divide

5. Divide three bananas to three boys, how much each will get?

6. Roar- to laugh loudly

7. A boy asked “if no banana is distributed among no one will everyone still get one banana?” Teacher said If zero banana is divided among zero each will get an infinity number of bananas

8. Thumped-to beat forcefully

9. The teacher later complimented the boy It takes several centuries to answer

10. Some mathematician claimed

11. Absurd-stupid and unreasonable silly in a humorous way

12. Indian mathematician Bhaskara who proved that it is infinity

13. The boy who asked intriguing question was Srinivasa Ramanujan

14. Intriguing- very interesting because of being unusual or mysterious

15. His father was a petty clerk in a cloth shop

16. Ramanujan early childhood- he was a prodigy

17. Prodigy- a child who shows a great ability at a young age

18. Senior student used to go to his dingy house to get their difficulty in mathematics solved

19. Dingy-a dark and dirty place

20. At the age of 13 he got Loney’s trigonometry from college library

21. He came forth with theorems and formulae – not given in the book – they had been discovered much earlier by great mathematicians

22. Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure Applied Mathematics by George Shoobridge Carr .

23. Unkempt- not neat or cared for

24. Uncouth-behaving in an unpleasant way

25. This book triggered the mathematical genius in him

26. Do problems on loose sheets of paper, slate and jot the result in note books later became Ramanujan’s Frayed Notebooks.

27. Although he secured first class in mathematics and got Subramanyan Scholarship

28. He failed twice in his first year arts examination in college

29. He neglected other subject this disappointed his father

30. His father thought Ramanujan had gone mad when he found the boy always scribbling numbers.

31. He began to look for a job to buy papers for calculations

32. He needed 2000 sheets of papers for calculations every month

33. He searched for clerical job by showing his Frayed note books but no one can understand

34. Atlast the Director of Madras Port Trust Francis Spring impressed by Ramanujan’s note book

35. Francis Spring gave a clerical job on a monthly salary of Rs 25

36. On may 1913 the University of Madras granted him a fellowship of Rs 75 a month

37. Ramanujan had sent a letter to great mathematician G.H.Hardy of Cambridge University

38. In which he set 120 theorems and formulae

39. Among them was what is known as the Reimann series

40. Hardy and J.E.Littlewood had discovered a rare mathematical genius(Ramanujan)

41. On march 17, 1913 he sailed for Britain

42. At Cambridge the cold was hard to bear and being a vegetarian however he continued his research in mathematics

43. Hardy found an unsystematic mathematician in Ramanujnan

44. He played with numbers as a child would play with a toy

45. Distinguished-used to describe a person, respected, admired for excellence

46. Ramaniujan was elected Fellow of Royal Society on febuary 28, 1918

47. Youngest Indian to receive this distinguished fellowship

48. Emaciated-very thin and weak usually because of illness

49. In October 1918 he become first Indian to be elected Fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge

50. In algebra his continued fraction is considered to be equal to great mathematicians like Leonhard Euler and Jacobi

51. While continued his research work he was affected by Tuberculosis

52. Agonising - causing extreme physical or mental pain

53. He continued to play with numbers even on his death bed

54. Besides being a mathematician Ramanujan was an astrologer of repute and a good speaker

55. He used to give lectures on subjects like “God, Zero and Infinity”