Kumbakonam Trip: Stop 3: Ramanujar's house: Mathematician Ramanujan came to Madras for his higher studies, and later, with the help of the Englishman Hardy and Namperumal Chetty, he made his way to England and back, and subsequently died there.
But how many of us know of his family house in Kumbakonam? Ramanujan's parents raised him in a small house by the side of the Nageswaraswamy temple, for a part of his youth.
According to Rangarathnam Gopu, who had sent Pradeep Chakravarthy a recording on Sreenivasa Ramanujan(videos attached), Ramanujan loved to complicate Maths. He would take a simple formula like 3=/9, and expand that 9 to be 3x3, expand 3 into 2+1, expand 2 into 8 cube, expand 8 cube to be 4x2, and so on. This prompted Hardy to bring him to England. It was his theory of what infinity was that was the clinching factor.
Ramanujan's house is very simple. Born to Sreenivasa Iyengar and Komalattamal in Erode, he moved to this house very early.
The house is very simple. A thinnai with a plaque declaring this Ramanujan's house, a front room with a bust of the man himself, and another plaque from 2004, declaring this the Ramanujan museum and an open-to-sky drawing up air with a bedroom by the bust next to the thinnai, an irendangkattu, or second kattu, comprising a narrow corridor with a kitchen leading off it, and ending in an open area with a well and a washing place, and finally a bathroom. The ceiling is 19th century, sloped wooden.
In the main room are all kinds of memorabilia related to Ramanujan. One of which is a certificate declaring him to have scored full marks in some exam in Geography. He seemed to have done well in every field, but excelled in maths.
We sat around and talked for a while, before moving on to the Rajaveda Patshala, a Thanjavur nayak period school.
As we walked back to the bus, we passed a structure, which on our way here we had seen, but for narrations sake I had skipped.
An old mandapam, the something-Ammal mandapam, with a stucco display on top, huge pillars, with a large open front area, and a covered portion inside. Now however, locked up and filled with garbage.
Location: Srinivasa Ramanujans house
The well
A bust of Ramanujan with some memorabilia and photos behind him
The house number
The street outside
But how many of us know of his family house in Kumbakonam? Ramanujan's parents raised him in a small house by the side of the Nageswaraswamy temple, for a part of his youth.
According to Rangarathnam Gopu, who had sent Pradeep Chakravarthy a recording on Sreenivasa Ramanujan(videos attached), Ramanujan loved to complicate Maths. He would take a simple formula like 3=/9, and expand that 9 to be 3x3, expand 3 into 2+1, expand 2 into 8 cube, expand 8 cube to be 4x2, and so on. This prompted Hardy to bring him to England. It was his theory of what infinity was that was the clinching factor.
Ramanujan's house is very simple. Born to Sreenivasa Iyengar and Komalattamal in Erode, he moved to this house very early.
The house is very simple. A thinnai with a plaque declaring this Ramanujan's house, a front room with a bust of the man himself, and another plaque from 2004, declaring this the Ramanujan museum and an open-to-sky drawing up air with a bedroom by the bust next to the thinnai, an irendangkattu, or second kattu, comprising a narrow corridor with a kitchen leading off it, and ending in an open area with a well and a washing place, and finally a bathroom. The ceiling is 19th century, sloped wooden.
In the main room are all kinds of memorabilia related to Ramanujan. One of which is a certificate declaring him to have scored full marks in some exam in Geography. He seemed to have done well in every field, but excelled in maths.
We sat around and talked for a while, before moving on to the Rajaveda Patshala, a Thanjavur nayak period school.
As we walked back to the bus, we passed a structure, which on our way here we had seen, but for narrations sake I had skipped.
An old mandapam, the something-Ammal mandapam, with a stucco display on top, huge pillars, with a large open front area, and a covered portion inside. Now however, locked up and filled with garbage.
Location: Srinivasa Ramanujans house
The well
A bust of Ramanujan with some memorabilia and photos behind him
The house number
The street outside
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