Every year on December 22, Indians celebrate National Mathematics Day to honour the birth anniversary of a man for whom the world of mathematics was nothing short of magic. He is said to be the man who is said to know ‘infinity’. Yes! you are right, we are talking aSrinivasa Ramanujan began developing his mathematical theories and published his first paper in 1911. During his time at Cambridge, he was mentored by GH Hardy, a British mathematician who encouraged him to publish his findings in several papers. In 1918, Ramanujan became the second Indian to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.bout India’s great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. He was born on December 22, 1887, in Erode Tamil Nadu.