Srinivasa Ramanujan

Hello! My name is Srinivasa Ramanujan. I was born a very long time ago, in the year 1887. When I was a little boy growing up in India, my very best friends were numbers. I didn't need lots of toys, because I could play with numbers all day long. They were like a secret code, and I loved finding all their hidden patterns and secrets. Adding numbers, subtracting them, and seeing what they could do was my favorite game. It was like magic to me.

I loved numbers so much that I filled up big notebooks with all my ideas about them. I wrote and wrote, page after page, all the wonderful patterns I found. They were my number treasures. One day, in the year 1913, I decided to share my ideas with someone new. I sent a letter far, far away across the big ocean. It went to a man in England named G. H. Hardy. I hoped he loved numbers just as much as I did!

My new friend, Mr. Hardy, read my letter and invited me to England to share all my number secrets. It was a grand adventure on a big ship! I lived to be 32 years old, and when my life was over, I left behind my special notebooks full of ideas. Today, people all around the world still use my ideas to learn new things. My love for numbers keeps helping people solve new puzzles every single day!