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National Mathematics Day – December 22
December 26 , 2020
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- It was announced by the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 26 February 2012 at Madras University
- It was to mark the 125th anniversary of the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan’s birthday.
- 2012 was also celebrated as the National Mathematics Year.
- On this day in 1887, Ramanujan was born at Erode, Tamil Nadu.
- ‘The man who knew infinity’ is his autobiography film released in 2015.
- In 1918 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his research on Elliptic Functions and theory of numbers.
- In 1918 he also became the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Ramanujan found theorems to solve tricky trigonometric problems.
- The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize is awarded every year to a young mathematician (below the age of 32) judged to have done outstanding work in Ramanujan's fields of interest.
- The 2020 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Shai Evra of Princeton University, U.S., and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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