Manmohan Singh declares 2012 as "National Mathematical Year" for Whom?
Who found Trigonometric functions?
Great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan
"As a tribute to the great mathematician, our government has decided to declare his birthday, that is December 22, as the National Mathematics Day and the year 2012 as a whole as the National Mathematical Year."
Born: December 22, 1887 Died: April 26, 1920
Achievements:
* Ramanujan independently discovered results of Gauss, Kummer and others on hypergeometric series.
*Ramanujan's own work on partial sums and products of hypergeometric series have led to major development in the topic.
*His most famous work was on the number p(n) of partitions of an integer n into summands.
*Srinivasa Ramanujan was a mathematician par excellence.
*He is widely believed to be the greatest mathematician of the 20th Century.
*Srinivasa Ramanujan made significant contribution to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.
