Srinivasa Ramanujan

Born : 22 Dec 1887,Erode (now in Tamil Nadu)

Died : 26 April 1920,Kumbakonam (now in Tamil Nadu)

Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician and autodidact who lived during the British Raj.
Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to
mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions.

He later began a partnership with the English mathematician G. H. Hardy (Cambridge professor).

During his short life, Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3,900 results and Nearly all his claims have
now been proven correct.

Satyendra Nath Bose

Born 1 January 1894,Calcutta

Died 4 February 1974,Calcutta

Satyendra Nath Bose is one of the most prominent Indian mathematicians and physicist . He is best known
for his work on quantum statistics and quantum mechanics. In year 1924, Bose sent his mathematical
findings to Albert Einstein which led to the discovery of BoseEinstein statistics and Bose-Einstein
condensate phenomenon. In 1954, Government of India awarded him India's second highest civilian award,
the Padma Vibhushan for his contribution in mathematics.

D. R. Kaprekar

Born 17 January 1905, Dahanu, Maharashtra

Died 1986 , Devlali, Maharashtra

Dattathreya Ramchandra Kaprekar was an Indian recreational mathematician who described several classes
of natural numbers including the Kaprekar number, Harshad number and Devlali or Self numbers, Demlo
number and discovered the Kaprekar constant which was named after him.

C. P. Ramanujam

Born : 9 January 1938,Madras

Died : 27 October 1974,Bangalore

Chakravarthi Padmanabhan Ramanujam was an Indian mathematician who worked in the fields of number
theory and algebraic geometry. He was elected a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1973.

Shakuntala Devi

Born 4 November 1929, Bengaluru

Died 21 April 2013, Bengaluru

Shakuntala Devi was an Indian writer and mental calculator, popularly known as the "Human Computer".
A child prodigy, her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records.