On Dec 22, 1887, was born in Erode, then in Mysore State, now in Tamil Nadu, Srinivasa Ramanujan, who charted a novel route to God: Mathematics! Like all sciences, maths is of two kinds ...

Srinivasa Ramanujan, a mathematical prodigy born in 1887, saw mathematics as a path to God. He attributed his intuitive discoveries, particularly in infinite series, to divine inspiration received ...