National Mathematics Day 2023

Updated: December 21, 2023

National Mathematics Day– National Mathematics Day is observed on 22 December every year to mark the birth anniversary of legendary Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan. The day aims to create awareness of the development of mathematics and its importance in the growth of humanity.

Many scholars have made valuable contributions to mathematics such as Aryabhata, Mahavir, Brahmagupta, and Bhaskara II are known as mathematicians. all these showed genius signs. Ramanujan was born in 1887 in Erode, Tamil Nadu. he performed excellent performance at trigonometry and created various theorems.

He also contributed to the infinite series, fractions, mathematical analysis, and number theory. that’s why to remember his contribution, India celebrates Mathematics Day on 22nd December to mark the birth anniversary of Ramanujan.

National Mathematics Day: History

The 2012 Indian stamp was issued for Srinivasa Ramanujan. The Indian government designated 22 December to be celebrated as National Mathematics Day each year to mark the birth anniversary of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

On 26 December 2011, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh introduced the day at Madras University, to mark the 125th birth anniversary of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. On this occasion, Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh also announced that 2012 would be celebrated as the National Mathematics Year.

Since then, India’s National Mathematics Day has been celebrated on 22 December every year with numerous educational events held at schools and universities across the country. In 2017, the day’s significance was taken by the opening of the Ramanujan Math Park in Kuppam, in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh. National Mathematics Day is observed in all schools and universities in India.

Know About Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on 22nd December 1887 in Erode, Tamil Nadu. He achieved knowledge in Trigonometry at the age of 12. He for a copy of George Shoobridge Carr’s Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics at the age of 15.

In 1911 Ramanujan released the first of his papers in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society. In 1916, He was honoured with the B.A. Degree by research of Cambridge University. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in February 1918.

He solved mathematics questions and worked on various types of theorems. He died on 26th April 1920 at the age of 32.

Mathematical achievements by Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan

Ramanujan’s sum
Landau–Ramanujan constant
Mock theta functions
Ramanujan conjecture
Ramanujan prime
Ramanujan–Soldner constant
Ramanujan theta function
Rogers–Ramanujan identities
Ramanujan’s master theorem
Hardy–Ramanujan asymptotic formula
Ramanujan–Sato series

History Behind Ramanujan Number – 1729

1729 is also known as the Ramanujan Number. When the Indian mathematician, Ramanujan was living in England, he once got very ill. Prof. Hardy met Ramanujan in the hospital and stated to Ramanujan that 1729 seemed to be a very dull number, and hoped it wouldn’t turn out to be an unfavourable omen.

However, 1729 is the smallest number which can be noted in the form of a sum of cubes of two numbers in two ways such as 1729=1³+12³=9³+10³. Since then the number 1729 has been called Ramanujan’s number.

How did Srinivasa Ramanujan died?

Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan died on April 26, 1920, at the age of 32 years after suffering from tuberculosis. He is an inspiration for mathematicians across the globe. The self-taught genius lived a short however vibrant life and he is widely known as India’s greatest mathematician.

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Full Name	Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar
Born	22 December 1887, Erode, Mysore State, British India (now in Tamil Nadu, India)
Died	26 April 1920 (aged 32) Kumbakonam, Tanjore District, Madras Presidency, British India (now Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India)
Citizenship	British Indian
Education	Government Arts College Pachaiyappa’s College Trinity College, Cambridge (BA)
Known for	Ramanujan’s sum Landau–Ramanujan constant Mock theta functions Ramanujan conjecture Ramanujan prime Ramanujan–Soldner constant Ramanujan theta function Rogers–Ramanujan identities Ramanujan’s master theorem Hardy–Ramanujan asymptotic formula Ramanujan–Sato series
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (1918)
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Thesis	Highly Composite Numbers (1916)

Srinivasa Ramanujan Quotes

“An equation for me has no meaning, unless it expresses a thought of God.”
“To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful to me here to get a scholarship.”
“I beg to introduce myself to you as a clerk in the Accounts Department of the Port Trust Office at Madras on a salary of only £20 per annum. I am now about 23 years of age. After leaving school I have been employing the spare time at my disposal to work at Mathematics”
“No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways”
“While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing.”