International Mathematics Day
International Mathematics Day is always celebrated on 14th March as a commemoration of birth anniversary of great Indian Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Mathematics Day is generally celebrated across the whole nation, but it could be celebrated as an awareness programme for all, especially the students who are weaker in mathematics so that they can make themselves interesting in doing mathematics as magic avoiding its fear.
Ramanujan was born in the year 1887 in a village named Erode in Mysore state of British India. He himself developed his own mathematical research in isolation. According to Hans Eyesenc, he tried to interest the leading professional mathematicians in his work, but failed time and again. He was seeking for the good mathematicians who could better look upon his work. In 1913, he became a postal correspondence with the English mathematician Hardy, and arranged for him to travel to Cambridge.
During his short result, Ramanujan combined 3900 of his results (mostly identities and equations).Many were completely novel and his highly and original unconventional results such as the Ramanujan prime, the Ramanujan theta, partition formula and the mock theta functions which have opened the entire new areas of work and inspired a vast amount of further research. The Ramanujan journal, the scientific journal, was published to establish the work in all areas of mathematics that was inspired by Ramanujan.
"AN EQUATION FOR ME HAS NO MEANING UNLESS IT EXPRESSES A THOUGHT OF GOD" -by SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN.
The International Mathematics Day is also celebrated as the Pi Day because the mathematical constant pi can be rounded down to 3.14.The proclamation of March 14 as the International Day of Mathematics was adopted by the executive council by UNESCO at its 205th session.
Manish Kashyap,
B Borooah College,
Guwahati.