Good Morning all,

I am Nyasa from grade 5A, Maxfort School Paschim Vihar. Today we

are celebrating National Mathematics Day. It is celebrated every year
across the nation on 22nd December to commemorate the life and works
of Srinivasa Ramanujan. It was on this day in 1887, the Indian
mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan was born. On 26 th February,
2012, our former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, declared 22nd
December as National Mathematics Day to mark the mathematician’s
birth anniversary. The main objective behind celebrating the day is to
raise awareness among people about the importance of mathematics for
the development of humanity.
Srinivasa Ramanujan, who is also known as the ‘man who knew
infinity’, did not receive any formal education in Mathematics, but made
significant contributions to the field of mathematics. In the 1910s, he
was mentored by the great British mathematician G. H. Hardy, of
Cambridge University. Ramanujan mainly worked in analytical number
theory, infinite series, continued fractions and is famous for many
summation formulas involving constants such as π, prime numbers and
the partition function.
Now we know the value of pi as 3.14. However, Ramanujan came up
with something much more elaborate that got to pi faster and his series
can calculate the value of pi to more than 17 million digits. 
Ramanujan became one of the youngest people in history to get elected
as a “Fellow of the Royal Society” at the age of 31 in the year 1918. He
compiled over 3900 identities and equations in his life and died at the
age of 32.
After his death, some of the identities were found in his "lost notebook".
When the notebook was discovered, mathematicians proved almost all
of Ramanujan's work.
Srinivasa Ramanujan is remembered for his
unique mathematical brilliance, and is recognized by mathematicians as
a phenomenal genius. The Royal Society’s collections at Cambridge are
peppered with objects that point towards his lasting influence and
preserve his legacy. Ramanujan’s story inspires today and will continue
to inspire generations to come.

Thank You!!!!