The Brief Timeline of Srinivasa Ramanujan, Mathematician

Srinivasa was born in Erode, India

Dec 22, 1887

Absorbed with mathematics, failed college twice

Period: Jan 1, 1903 to Dec 31, 1907

Read Carr's Synopsis and plunges into mathematical exploration

Mar 21, 1903

Married 9-year-old Janaki, begins to seek employment

Jul 14, 1909

Showed his work to Indian mathematicians; gets a clerical job

Period: Jan 1, 1910 to Dec 1, 1912

Wrote to G.H. Hardy at Cambridge

Mar 21, 1913

Went to England; began to write major papers

Mar 21, 1914

Elected Fellow of the Royal Society and awarded Fellowship of Trinity College, Cambridge

Mar 21, 1918

Returned to India in ill health

Mar 21, 1919

Died in Madras, India of tuberculosis

Apr 26, 1920