Srinivasa Ramanujan, the Indian mathematician who discovered number theory, was born in Erode, British India, in 1887.
Srinivasa Ramanujan was a mathematical prodigy who lived in India. He made significant contributions to number theory and worked on elliptic functions, continuing fractions, and infinite series. Ramanujan was born in Erode, a tiny hamlet around 400 kilometres southwest of Madras. In 1902, Ramanujan was shown how to solve cubic equations, and he went on to develop his own method for solving quartic equations. He attempted to solve the quintic the next year, oblivious to the fact that radicals could not solve it.
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