Srinivasa Ramanujan Trivia Quiz: Youngest Indian mathematician

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Srinivasa Ramanujan Trivia Quiz: Youngest Indian mathematician

Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar was a great Indian mathematician born in 1887 into a Tamil Brahmin family in Madras Presidency. Ramanujan's father, Kuppuswamy Srinivasa Iyengar, was a clerk in a sari shop in Thanjavur district and his mother, Komalatammal, was a homemaker. Ramanujan became the youngest and second Indian member of Fellows of the Royal Society. He was also the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He made substantial contributions to number theory, mathematical analysis, infinite series, continued fractions, and many more.

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In which college did Srinivasa Ramanujan study Bachelor of Arts by Research, 1916?

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • The University of California at Los Angeles

  • Trinity College, Cambridge

  • Duke University

Which year is celebrated as the national mathematics year by GOI?

  • 2012

  • 2011

  • 2010

  • 2013

Which of the following movie is based on Ramanujan’s life?

  • Lion

  • Ramanujan

  • Ramanujan's life

  • The man who knew infinity

When Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar died?

  • 25 April 1920

  • 24 April 1920

  • 28 April 1920

  • 26 April 1920

The school's headmaster awarded Ramanujan the K. Ranganatha Rao prize for mathematics; who was the school's headmaster?

  • Maria Montessori

  • Krishnaswami Iyer

  • Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  • None of the above

In which school, Ramanujan first time encountered formal mathematics?

  • Bishop Heber Higher Secondary School, Trichy

  • Hindu School

  • Town Higher Secondary School

  • Anglo Urdu Boys' High School

Srinivasa Ramanujan published his first paper based on the following topic in mathematics

  • Bernoulli numbers

  • The constant pi

  • The properties of logarithms

  • The structure of mathematical proofs

Which of the following scientific journal is established considering Ramanujan contribution in mathematics?

  • Banach Journal of Mathematical Analysis

  • College Mathematics Journal

  • The Ramanujan Journal

  • Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

When Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar was born?

  • 23 December 1887

  • 22 December 1887

  • 24 December 1887

  • 20 December 1887

In which year, Ramanujan was graduated from Town Higher Secondary School?

  • 1904

  • 1905

  • 1906

  • 1907

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