The Indian government declared 22 December to be National Mathematics Day.

This was announced by

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 26 February 2012 at Madras University, to mark the 125th birth
anniversary of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. On this occasion Manmohan Singh also
announced that 2012 would be celebrated as the National Mathematics Year.

Since then, India's National Mathematics Day is celebrated on 22 December every year with numerous
educational events held at schools and universities throughout the country. In 2017, the day's
significance was enhanced by the opening of the Ramanujan Math Park in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh.

Ramanujan contributed a lot to mathematics. Here are some of his contributions -

Ramanujan compiled around 3,900 results consisting of equations and identities. One of his most
treasured findings was his infinite series for pi.

He discovered a long list of new ideas to solve many challenging mathematical problems, which gave a
significant impetus to the development of game theory. His contribution to game theory is purely based
on intuition and natural talent and remains unrivalled to this day.

One of Ramanujan’s notebooks was discovered by George Andrews in 1976 in the library at Trinity
College. Later the contents of this notebook were published as a book.

Ramanujan was a great Indian Mathematician who we must be proud of and be grateful for his
contributions to the world which is rightly celebrated in the form of National Mathematics Day.