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Every year, 22 December is celebrated as National Mathematics Day. Which of the following statements is/are INCORRECT regarding the day?  1. The day was declared as National Mathematics Day to commemorate the birth anniversary of Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 26 February 2012 at Madras University. 2. In 1917, Ramanujan was elected to be a member of the London Mathematical Society. 3. In 2015, the day's significance was enhanced by the opening of the Ramanujan Math Park in Andra Pradesh. 4. The number 1729 is known as the Hardy–Ramanujan number. Select the correct answer using the code given below. (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 4 only (c) 3 only (d) 2 and 3 only 

Every year, 22 December is celebrated as National Mathematics Day. Which of the following statements is/are INCORRECT regarding the day?  1. The day was declared as National Mathematics Day to commemorate the birth anniversary of Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 26 February 2012 at Madras University. 2. In 1917, Ramanujan was elected to be a member of the London Mathematical Society. 3. In 2015, the day's significance was enhanced by the opening of the Ramanujan Math Park in Andra Pradesh. 4. The number 1729 is known as the Hardy–Ramanujan number. Select the correct answer using the code given below. (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 4 only (c) 3 only (d) 2 and 3 only  Correct Answer c

The correct answer is b i.e. Statement 2 and 3 only.

Key Points

  • ​National Mathematics Day:
    • National Mathematics Day is celebrated every year on December 22.
    • It is observed to honor the birth anniversary of the famous mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan who greatly contributed towards mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. Hence statement 1 is correct.
    • In 2012, the Indian Government declared that 22 December will be celebrated every year as National Mathematics Day.
    • On 6 December 1917, Ramanujan was elected to the London Mathematical Society. Hence statement 2 is correct.
      • On 2 May 1918, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the second Indian admitted, after Ardaseer Cursetjee in 1841.
    • In 2017, the day's significance was enhanced by the opening of the Ramanujan Math Park in Andra Pradesh. Hence statement 3 is incorrect.
    • The number 1729 is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number after a famous visit by Hardy to see Ramanujan at a hospital. ​Hence statement 4 is correct.

​Additional Information​

  • Highlights of Srinivasa Ramanujan’s life:
    • In 1911, Ramanujan published the first of his papers in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society.
    • Ramanujan traveled to England in 1914, where Hardy tutored him and collaborated with him in some research.
    • He worked out the Riemann series, the elliptic integrals, the hypergeometric series, the functional equations of the zeta function, and his own theory of divergent series.
    • The number 1729 is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number after a famous visit by Hardy to see Ramanujan at a hospital.
    • Hardy observed Ramanujan’s work primarily involved fields less known even amongst other pure mathematicians.
    • Ramanujan’s home state of Tamil Nadu celebrates 22 December as ‘State IT Day’, memorializing both the man and his achievements, as a native of Tamil Nadu.
    • The Dev Patel-starrer ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ (2015) was a biopic on the mathematician.

Related Questions

S1:There is a touching story of Professor Hardy visiting Ramanujan as he lay desperately ill in hospital at Putney.
P :'No Hardy, that is not a dull number in the very least.
Q :Hardy, who was a very shy man, could not find the words for his distress.
R :It was 1729.
S :The best he could do, as he got to the beside was "I say Ramanujan, I thought the number of taxi I came down in was a very dull number".
S6:It is the lowest number that can be expressed in two different ways as the sum of two cubes.

The Proper sequence should be:
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Q: Hardy, who was a very shy man, could not find the words for his distress.
R: It was 1729.
S: The best he could do, as he got to the bedside was : "I say, Ramanujan, I thought the number of the taxi I came down in was a very dull number."
S6: It is the lowest number that can be expressed in two different ways as the sum of two cubes."

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