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National Mathematics Day (India)       The 2012 Indian stamp dedicated to the National Mathematics Day and featuring Ramanujan In 2012, the Indian government declared 22 December to be  National Mathematics Day . This was announced by Prime Minister  Manmohan Singh  on 26 February 2012 at  Madras University , during the inaugural ceremony of the celebrations to mark the 125th anniversary of the birth of the Indian mathematical genius  Srinivasa Ramanujan (22 Dec 1887- 26 Apr 1920). On this occasion Singh also announced that 2012 would be celebrated as the National Mathematics Year. Since then, India's National Mathematics Day is celebrated every 22 December with numerous educational events held at schools and universities throughout the country. In 2017, the day's significance was enhanced by the opening of the  Ramanujan Math Park  in  Kuppam , in  Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh . [3]

Srinivasa Ramanujan , (born December 22, 1887,  Erode , India—died April 26, 1920, Kumbakonam), Indian mathematician whose contributions to the  theory of numbers  include pioneering discoveries of the properties of the partition function. When he was 15 years old, he obtained a copy of George Shoobridge Carr’s  Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics,  2 vol. (1880–86). This collection of thousands of  theorems , many presented with only the briefest of proofs and with no material newer than 1860, aroused his genius. Having verified the results in Carr’s book, Ramanujan went beyond it, developing his own theorems and ideas. In 1903 he secured a scholarship to the  University of Madras  but lost it the following year because he neglected all other studies in pursuit of  mathematics . Ramanujan continued his work, without employment and living in the poorest circumstances. After marrying in 1909 he began a search for permanent employment that culminated in a

MATHEMATICAL HERITAGE OF INDIA: SOME REMEDIAL ISSUES: MATHEMATICS HISTORY IN TEACHING 1.      Introduction Mathematics has the largest history of more than 5000 years developed in isolation in the beginning of different cultures-later exchanged the ideas somehow till the emergence of modern era-and what we observe today is the synthesis of fruitful concepts of ancient, medieval and, of course, later modern periods in its major share. Post independent India has paid special attention towards the better understanding of history of Indian science by initiation of Government of India by constituting a National Commission (1969) functional under the Indian National Science Academy (INSA, New Delhi) and establishing National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (New Delhi). In this context it is worthy to mention that the first major activity in the form of a symposium was held at University of Delhi in 1950. Since then a number of theme oriented programs (lect