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The National Mathematics Day in India is celebrated annually on December 22 on the birth anniversary of legendary mathematician Srinivas Ramanujan.

In 2012, the then Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, designated Ramanujan's birth anniversary to be celebrated as National Mathematics Day in a bid to honour and cherish his contribution to the field of mathematics.


Besides remembering him, the day also reflects on the significance of the subject in our daily lives.

The inception of mathematics has not only brought about advancements in accounting and finance but also made equal contributions to technological advancements, scientific discoveries, and economics.

Born in 1887 to a Tamil Brahmin family in Erode, Tamil Nadu, Srinivasa Ramanujan was fondly recognised as the man who knew ‘infinity.’

Some of his major contributions include a diverse theory of numbers and mathematical functions, conceiving the divergent series, the Riemann series, the hypergeometric series, and even

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