Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 in Erode. An Indian mathematician, Ramanujan grew up in poverty in southern India, and developed remarkable results in number theory, infinite series and continued fractions largely on his own, with little formal training. In 1913 he wrote to the Cambridge mathematician G. H. Hardy, who recognized his genius and brought him to England, where they collaborated for several years. Ramanujan's work on partitions, mock theta functions and the number pi continues to inspire research. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society but fell ill in England, returned to India and died young.
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- 12 August 1887Birth of Erwin Schrödinger
- 29 September 1887Founding of Hamburger SV
- 6 October 1887Birth of Le Corbusier
- 31 October 1887Birth of Chiang Kai-shek
- 22 December 1887Birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1888Rise of Les Nabis
- 9 January 1888Founding of Financial Times
- 13 May 1888Brazil abolishes slavery with the Golden Law
- 13 June 1888Birth of Fernando Pessoa
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