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| Sreenivasa Ramanujan- Indian Mathematician's House at sarangapani Temple street,kumbakonam |
Born in 1887, the son of a cloth merchant’s clerk, Ramanujan grew up in a Brahmin family of humble means, often going hungry and finding inventive ways to continue his study through a homemade approach to mathematics: mostly self-teaching or relying on one or two outdated textbooks. Much of his childhood and adolescence was spent in Kumbakonam, a small town on the banks of the Cauvery River in Tamil Nadu, a southern state of India. He worked on the pyolof his house—the narrow strip of porch outside his bedroom window, writing and wiping his workings using chalk on a small slate. Nearby, the great hall of the Sarangapani temple provided an alternative, shady space for study and prayer. Ramanujan was a bright child. He was serious with his studies and came first in class; he also scored the highest marks in mathematics. But he was shy and reserved; never went to play with other children. He used to sit behind the front window of his house(seen in the photograph) with his snacks and do his school-work and watch other children play.
Every morning, Ramanujan would go to Sri Sarangapani Temple to worship Perumal and would do Saashtaanga Namaskaram a vaisnavite practice of total surrender to Lord Vishnu. Ramanujan used to spend many hours within the high walls of the sarangapani temple .The photograph above shows his home located close to the temple..
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| Sarangapani Temple Kumbakonam 1882 |
