National Mathematics Day- December 22nd

• The National Mathematics Day (NMD) is observed on December 22 each year to commemorate the birth anniversary of the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
• December 22 was designated as the National Mathematics Day by the government in 2012.
• The year 2012 was also termed and celebrated as the National Mathematics Year.

 ABOUT S RAMANUJAN

• Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on December 22, 1887 in Erode, Tamil Nadu.
• Ramanujan, one of the greatest Indian mathematicians of all time, is known for his work in the areas of Riemann series, hypergeometric series, elliptic integrals, continued fractions, and functional equations of the zeta function.
• In 1911, he got his first paper published in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society.
• In 1916, he was awarded the B.A. degree by research at the Cambridge University.
• He died on April 26, 1920 at age of 32.
• He has left behind around 4,000 original theorems.