National mathematics day is celebrated every year in India on December 22 to honour the memory of mathematical genius Srinivasa ... he was just 17 years old. Hardy took Ramanujan to Cambridge ...

IN a letter in NATURE (Jan. 20, 1921; vol. 106, p. 661) I took occasion to point out that the year of Ramanujan's birth was given in some notices as 1887 and in others as 1888. I wrote at the time ...