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December 22: National Mathematics Day
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- The National Mathematics Day is observed every year on 22nd December to celebrate birth anniversary of great Indian Autodidact Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
- This year, it is 130th birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan and his birthday is celebrated as 'State IT Day' in Tamil Nadu.
- His contributions in Mathematics include number theory, mathematical analysis, infinite series, and making formulas and equations and his discoveries in mathematics include Ramanujam Prime and Ramanujam theta.
- He along with Godfrey Harold Hardy, a British Mathematician, discovered the smallest number represented as sum of two cubes 1729. This number is known as Hardy–Ramanujan number 1729.
- SASTRA Ramanujam Prize is annually given by SASTRA University of Tamil Nadu to a mathematician who is not more than 32 years in age for his/her outstanding contributions in an area of mathematics influenced by Ramanujan
- The National Mathematics Day was instituted in 2011 by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to celebrate Ramanujan’s 125th birth anniversary. Besides, the year 2012 was also declared National Mathematics Year.
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