Question: When ‘National Mathematics Day’ is celebrated?
(a) December 23
(b) December 20
(c) December 22
(d) December 25
Answer: (c)
Related Facts:
- On December 22nd, 2017; National Mathematics Day was celebrated across the country.
- It is worth mentioning that on December 22 every year, this day is celebrated on the occasion of birth anniversary of great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan.
- On the occasion of his 125th birth anniversary in the year 2012, the Central Government had announced to celebrate this day.
- He was born on December 22, 1887; in Erode town, 400 km from Madras (Chennai).
- The wonderful discoveries made by him in mathematics became the cornerstone of today’s modern mathematics and science.
- For the wonderful work of Ramanujan on the number theory, he is considered as the ‘magician of numbers’.
- He is also called the ‘mathematician of mathematicians’.
Reference:
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/srinivasa-ramanujan-national-mathematics-day-facts/1/840477.html
http://indianexpress.com/article/education/india-national-mathematics-day-in-memory-of-srinivasa-ramanujan-4993857/