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December 22: National Mathematics Day

December 23 , 2017 2399 days 1650 0
  • 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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