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Ramanujan was a genius mathematician, he was born December 22, 1887

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The Cauvery river was a reoccurring
place in Ramanujan's life. During the monsoons it would the water would rise 10 to 15 ft.

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Kumbakonum was Ramanujan's hometown. During a monsoon it was flooded directly by the Cauvery River.

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1877 was the second year of the failed monsoon. The failed monsoon brought death and famine to south India.

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In September 1887 a girl named Komalatammal went to her parent's house. It was tradition to go back to your parent's house to prepare for your first born

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With accordance with tradition Ramanujan would be officially named on his eleventh day of life. He was named Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar.

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Ramanujan's mother would never miss a rehearsal, but now she was missing 4 or 5 at a time in a row. When one of the band member went to her house to investigate. When she go to the house she discovered a pile of margosa tree leaves, and Ramanujan's mother treating Ramanujan's pox ridden body.

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Ramanujan's parents were struggling with money. His dad would make 20 rupees per month, his mother sang with a group near temples. half of what the group made would go to the church and rest to the singers, although she only made 5 or 10 it really helped out the family. So she never missed a rehearsal.

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When Ramanujan was growing up it was a bad year for pox. Ramanujan recovering from it was already a miracle, but even though he recovered he did have scars from it. The pox were so bad that there were 4 thousand deaths per year. Also when he was 10 there was a cholera epidemic that killed fifteen thousand people. 3 or 4 out 10 children died before they lived a year.

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When Ramanujan was one and a half years old his mother had a bore a son, but three months later he died. When he was almost 4, in November 1891, his sister was born but died the following February. Also when he was six and a half, his mother gave birth to another boy who died before the year was out.

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Much later his mother gave birth two boys that survived. The first was born in 1898, when Ramanujan was 10 Lakshmi Narasimhan was born, and when he was 17 Tirunarayanan was born, but due two the early deaths of his brothers and sisters the solicitous regard and central position of an only child

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When he was three, he spoke scarcely due to that they thought he was dumb. So they took him to his grandfather where they started the practice of Akshara Abhyasam. His hand held tgether and guided by his grandfather, was made to trace out Tamil characters in a thick bed of rice spread across the floor, as each character was spoke aloud. Soon fears of Ramanujan's dumbness were dispelled and he began to learn the 12 vowels, 18 constants, and 215 combined consonant-vowel from forms the Tamil alphabet.

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When he was a young he was a sensitive, stubborn, and eccentric child. Even though he was an infant back in Erode, he wouldn't eat except at the temple, and in Kumbakonam, he'd take all the brass and copper objects in the house he would line them up from one wall to the other, and if he didn't get what he wanted to eat, he would roll in the mud in frustration.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/04/who-was-ramanujan/
https://www.wired.com/2016/04/who-was-ramanujan/
https://www.famousscientists.org/srinivasa-ramanujan/
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Ramanujan.html

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Ramanujan liked being alone which is a trait he got from his parents. His friends would say that his parents discouraged him from going outside. So he would to talk to them through a window.

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In January 1898, Ramanujan starts high school at his town's high school. He did well on all his subjects and was an all around scholar.

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Ramanujan started going primary school when he was around 5 years old. He went to school in Kumbakonam but he also went to several other primary schools as well