Blog Post #122: Tribute to the Maths Genius Srinivasa Ramanujan on his 133rd birth anniversary

As we near the end of an unprecedented year, here's a short blog post on the occasion of the birthday of an eminent personality whom I admire and revere the most - Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan

Dec 22nd 2020 marks the 133rd birth anniversary of the Mathematical genius and needless to say this day won't be complete without looking at some incredible number patterns

Let's look at few of them

a) 1887 + 2020 is 3907 which is a Prime number

b) 2020 - 1887 is 133 which is the product of two prime numbers - 19 and 7!

c) Add the digits of today's date in pairs - 22 + 12 + 20 + 20 and the resultant number is 74. Reverse of 74 is 47 and when you add both we get 121 which is a perfect square and a palindrome!

d) Now add the individual digits of the date - 2 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 0 which gives us 11 - square root of 121 in the previous step!

e)  Extract the 1st and last digits of both 1887 and 2020 - 17 and 20. Sum of these two numbers is 37 and difference is 3. Now multiply 17 with 37 and 3 - the resultant is 1887!!

f)  It does not stop there.. Hold on! 

133rd birth anniversary is special as well in many sense

- 133 is a product of two primary numbers as we saw earlier

- 133 is also a sum of two cubes - 125 and 8 (5 ^ 3 + 2 ^ 3)

- 133 is difference of two perfect squares - 169 and 36 (13 ^ 2 - 6 ^ 2)

I am sure we can go on and on as there are infinite possibilities when we start talking about the Mathematical genius and humble tribute to "The Man who knew Infinity"!