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Srinivasa Ramanujan was born in , Tamil Nadu, in a poor family. He was good at  from a very young age. He questioned his teacher as to how one has to divide zero by . The teacher gave the answer as . This was one of the difficult concepts that most mathematicians had worked on to derive an answer. He grew up with a  for Maths, but he failed in other subjects and therefore did not have a . He worked on  to derive new ideas and equations. He later became a clerk in the . But his brilliance in Mathematics fetched him a research  in Madras University, which later on led him to be selected as a research scholar in . Although life in  was difficult, he went on to solve and create some of the best hypotheses in Mathematics. He was later affected by , but he continued to work Maths, even on his deathbed.