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Death of Srinivasa Ramanujan
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The self-taught mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan died in Madras at the age of 32, a year after returning from Cambridge.
Srinivasa Ramanujan, born in Erode in 1887 and raised in Kumbakonam, was a largely self-taught mathematician. After corresponding with G. H. Hardy he worked at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He returned to India in poor health and died in Madras on 26 April 1920. His work on number theory, infinite series and continued fractions continued to be studied for decades, and his family home in Kumbakonam later became a museum.
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