Srinivasa Ramanujan was born in Erode, a South Indian town in Tamil Nadu. Kuppuswamy Srinivasa Iyengar, his father, was a clerk in a saree shop, while Komalatamma, his mother, was a housewife. From an early age, he showed an interest in mathematics. At that time, he had already become a child prodigy.

He did his early education in Madras at a local school. He was mostly self-taught, and he developed his love for mathematics at a very young age. During high school, he won several academic prizes. But during his college days, his passion for mathematics turned out to be a pitfall as he failed in subjects other than mathematics. So, he dropped out of college. Despite all the odds, he continued to work on his concepts, ideologies, and mathematical theorems until he was successful in getting the final breakthrough.

After dropping out of college, he sent his work to mathematicians all over the globe. He was appointed as the clerk in the Madras Post Trust Office in 1912. His manager encouraged him to reach out to Cambridge University's famous mathematician, G. H. Hardy. At Cambridge, another mathematician, J.E.Littlewood, along with Hardy, analyzed Ramanujan's work, after which he was recognized as one of the greatest mathematicians of all times.

Ramanujan, along with Hardy, published more than 12 research papers in England between 1911 and 1914. He published more than thirty research papers in a span of three years.