22 December 1887, one of the greatest dates in the history of India. This was the date when a future genius was born to Kuppuswamy Srinivasa Iyengar and Komalatammal in a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family in Erode, now Tamil Nadu, in the then Kingdom of Mysore.
Originally from Thanjavur district, Kuppuswamy Srinivasa Iyengar worked as a clerk in a saree shop. Komaltammal was a housewife and used to sing in a local temple. They lived in a small traditional house on Sarangapani Sannidhi Street in Kumbakonami town. When Ramanujan was one and a half years old, his mother gave birth to a son, Sadagopan, who died in less than three months. In December 1889, Ramanujan contracted smallpox but recovered, unlike 4,000 others who died in a bad year in Thanjavur district around this time. He moved with his mother to his parents' house in Kancheepuram near Madras (now Chennai). His mother gave birth to two more children in 1891 and 1894, both of whom died before their first birthday.
On 1 October 1892, Ramanujan was enrolled in a local school. After his maternal grandfather lost his job as a court official in Kanchipuram, Ramanujan and his mother moved back to Kumbakonam, and he was enrolled in Kangayan Primary School.
When his paternal grandfather died, he was sent back to his maternal grandparents, then living in Madras. He did not like school in Madras, and tried to avoid attending. His family enlisted a local constable to make sure he attended school. Within six months, Ramanujan was back in Kumbakonam.
Since Ramanujan's father was at work for most of the day, his mother looked after the boy, and they had a close relationship. From them, they learned about tradition and Puranas, to sing religious songs, to participate in temple worship, and to maintain special eating habits – part of Brahmin culture. Ramanujan did well in Kangyan Primary School. In November 1897, just before he turned 10, he passed his primary examinations in English, Tamil, Geography and Arithmetic with the best marks in the district. That year, Ramanujan entered Town Higher Secondary School, where he encountered formal mathematics for the first time.
A prodigal child at the age of 11, she had exhausted the mathematical knowledge of two college students who were supposed to stay at her home. Later he was awarded the S.A. on Advanced Trigonometry. Ale. A book written by Loni was given. He mastered it at the age of 13, discovering sophisticated theorems on his own. By 14, he had received certificates of merit and academic awards that continued throughout his school career, and he assisted the school in assigning its 1,200 students (each with different needs) to its approximately 35 teachers. He completed the mathematical exam in half the allotted time, and showed a familiarity with geometry and infinite series. Ramanujan was shown how to solve cubic equations in 1902; He developed his own method for solving the quartic. The following year, he tried to solve Quintic, not knowing that it could not be solved by radicals.
n 1903, when he was 16, Ramanujan wrote to a friend A Summary of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics, G.S. Received a library copy of Carr's collection of 5,000 theorems. Ramanujan reportedly studied the contents of the book in detail. The book is generally accepted as a key element in awakening his genius. The following year, Ramanujan independently developed and investigated the Bernoulli numbers and calculated the Euler–Mascheroni constant up to 15 decimal places. His peers at the time said that he "rarely understood him" and "respectfully stood in awe".
When he graduated from Town Higher Secondary School in 1904, Ramanujan was awarded a K.A. for mathematics by the school's headmaster, Krishnaswamy Iyer. Ranganatha Rao Award. Iyer projected Ramanujan as an outstanding student who deserved more than the maximum. He obtained a scholarship to study at the Government Arts College, Kumbakonam, but was so intent on mathematics that he could not concentrate on any other subjects and failed in most of them, giving up. His scholarship in the process. In August 1905, Ramanujan ran away from home on his way to Visakhapatnam, and stayed in Rajahmundry for about a month. He later joined Pachaiyappa College, Madras. There, he passed in mathematics, choosing to attempt only the questions he liked and leaving the rest unanswered, but did poorly in other subjects such as English, physiology and Sanskrit. Ramanujan failed the Fellow of Arts examination in December 1906 and again a year later. Without an FA degree, he dropped out of college and continued to do independent research in mathematics, living in extreme poverty and often on the verge of starvation.
