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Erode
Also known as Erode — Ramanujan birthplace
The town on the Kaveri in Tamil Nadu where Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) was born on 22 December 1887 to a Tamil Brahmin family. Ramanujan's mother's family was from Erode and he was born at his maternal grandparents' house; his father K. Srinivasa Iyengar was a clerk at a Kumbakonam cloth merchant's. The family moved to Kumbakonam when he was about one year old, where he received his mathematical formation and schooling. Erode is now a textile hub and the Kongu Nadu cultural capital, with the Ramanujan birthplace preserved as a memorial by the Tamil Nadu government. The 1962 postage stamp of Ramanujan on his 75th birth anniversary and the National Mathematics Day each 22 December commemorate the Erode birth date.
- Date
- 1887–1887
- Function
- Landscape & environmental change
- Condition
- living city
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 11.340, 77.720
Connections (1)
- Biographical routeKumbhakonam
Ramanujan was born at Erode in 1887 and grew up at Kumbakonam, where he worked through Carr's Synopsis of Pure Mathematics on his own, failed his college examinations twice for neglecting every subject but one, and filled the notebooks. The mathematical formation belongs to Kumbakonam rather than to the birthplace, and almost all of it was done without access to a proof-based tradition or to anybody who could follow it.
Sources
MacTutor History of Mathematics, Srinivasa Ramanujan; Ramanujan biographies and archives.
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