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On 14 July 1909, Ramanujan married Janaki (Janakiammal; 21 March 1899 – 13 April 1994), [38] a girl his mother had selected for him a year earlier and who was ten years old when they married. [39] [40] [41] It was not unusual then for marriages to be arranged with girls at a young age.
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan is a biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, written in 1991 by Robert Kanigel. The book gives a detailed account of his upbringing in India, his mathematical achievements and his mathematical collaboration with mathematician G. H. Hardy .
Janaki, after much elapsed time, wonders why she has not heard from Ramanujan and eventually discovers that his mother has been intercepting his letters, and withholding hers to him. Hardy makes special efforts to get Ramanujan's now recognisably exceptional mathematical skills accepted by the university, by nominating Ramanujan for a ...
Bose, not keen on marriage so early in life and while still attending college, only did so at his mother's insistence. [5] They had nine children, two of whom died in early childhood. Liu Chi-chun (aged 16) was married to Yen Chia-kan (aged 19) in 1924. Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib (aged 8) was married to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (aged 18) in 1938.
Janaki Ammal was born in Thalassery, Kerala on 4 November 1897. [1] Her father was Diwan Bahadur Edavalath Kakkat Krishnan, Dy.Collector of Malabar district. [2] Her mother, Devi Kuruvayi, was the daughter of John Child Hannyngton, colonial administrator and Resident at Travancore, and Kunhi Kurumbi Kuruvai.
Janaki Ammal, Indian botanist whose notable work involved studies on sugarcane and the eggplant. She received Padma Shri [421] Kadambini Ganguly, one of the first Indian female doctors who practised with a degree in Western medicine [422] K. S. Krishnan, Indian physicist who was the co-discoverer of Raman scattering and mentor of C. V. Raman.
On 16 January 1913, Ramanujan wrote to Hardy, who Ramanujan had known from studying Orders of Infinity (1910). [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Hardy read the letter in the morning, suspected it was a crank or a prank, but thought it over and realized in the evening that it was likely genuine because "great mathematicians are commoner than thieves or humbugs of ...
Janaki-parinaya is a Ramayana-drama by Ramabhadra Diksita also belongs to the 17th century CE. There are two more dramas of this name, one by Narayana Bhatta and the other by Sitarama . Raghavananda is a Ramayana-drama by Venkatesvara belonging to the last quarter of the 17th century CE in the court of Sahaji and Serfoji of Tanjore (1684–1728).