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He opened the first curry-house restaurant in London
Wrote first English-language book written by an Indian
Introduced the technique of bathing and massaging hair and scalp with fragrant oils known in India as “champi.”
“Champi” eventually became “shampoo.”
He eventually got appointed as “shampooing surgeon” to King George IV and King William IV.
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India’s Metro Man- E Sreedharan (deserves highest civilian award-Bharat Ratna)
**Elattuvalapil Sreedharan is a retired Indian Engineering Service (IES) officer popularly known as the “Metro Man”. He served as the Managing Director ofDelhi Metro between 1995-2012 and was chosen for prestigious Lokmanya Tilak Award 2013.
**E. Sreedharan was born on 12 June 1932 in the Palakkad district of Kerala. His family hails from Karukaputhur, near Koottanad, part of Thrithala legislative assembly, Palakkad district, Kerala. He completed his education at the Basel Evangelical Mission Higher Secondary School and then went to the Victoria Collegein Palghat. He later on completed his Civil Engineering from the Government Engineering College, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh known as JNTUK. He, along with his wife Radha, have four children.
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Greatest Mathematician of British India- S Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan (Tamil: ஸ்ரீனிவாச ராமானுஜன்) FRS (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png pronunciation (help·info)) (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indianmathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis,number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. Living in India with no access to the larger mathematical community, which was centred in Europe at the time, Ramanujan developed his own mathematical research in isolation. As a result, he rediscovered known theorems in addition to producing new work. Ramanujan was said to be a natural genius by the English mathematician G. H. Hardy, in the same league as mathematicians such as Euler and Gauss.[SUP][1]](Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia)[/SUP]
Ramanujan was born at Erode, Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu) in aTamil family.[SUP][2]](Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia)[/SUP][SUP][3]](Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia)[/SUP][SUP]unreliable source?][/SUP] His introduction to formal mathematicsbegan at age 10. He demonstrated a natural ability, and was given books on advanced trigonometry written by S. L. Loney that he mastered by the age of 12; he even discovered theorems of his own, and re-discovered Euler’s identityindependently.[SUP][4]](Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia)[/SUP] He demonstrated unusual mathematical skills at school, winning accolades and awards. By 17, Ramanujan had conducted his own mathematical research on Bernoulli numbers and the Euler–Mascheroni constant.
Ramanujan received a scholarship to study at Government College inKumbakonam, which was later rescinded when he failed his non-mathematical coursework. He joined another college to pursue independent mathematical research. During the same time, Diwan Bahadul R. Ramachandra Rao, ICS; who was a keen mathematician and served as President of the Indian Mathematical Society himself; assisted Ramanujan in getting a clerical job in the Accountant-General’s office at the Madras Port Trust Office to support himself.[SUP][5]](Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia)[/SUP] In 1912–1913, he sent samples of his theorems to three academics at the University of Cambridge. G. H. Hardy, recognizing the brilliance of his work, invited Ramanujan to visit and work with him at Cambridge. He became aFellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Ramanujan died of tuberculosis caused by illness and malnutrition in 1920 at the age of 32.
During his short life, Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3900 results (mostly identities and equations).[SUP][6]](Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia)[/SUP] Nearly all his claims have now been proven correct, although a small number of these results were actually false and some were already known.[SUP][7]](Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia)[/SUP] He stated results that were both original and highly unconventional, such as the Ramanujan prime and the Ramanujan theta function, and these have inspired a vast amount of further research.[SUP][8]](Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia)[/SUP] The Ramanujan Journal, an international publication, was launched to publish work in all areas of mathematics influenced by his work.[SUP][9]](Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia)[/SUP]
In December 2011, in recognition of his contribution to mathematics, the Government of India declared that Ramanujan’s birth date (22 December) would be celebrated every year as National Mathematics Day and declared 2012 the National Mathematics Year
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^ Wow... he achieved so much with little resources and lived only 32 years.
Died of TB caused by malnutrition! :(
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His collegue, GH Hardy who found him has written in his famous book “A Mathamatician’s Apology”, that no mathametical acheivement has ever been made beyond 40.
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy
Other person is Amartya Sen- Mahbub-ul-Haq (He gave HDI Index to the world)
Dr. **Mahbub-ul-Haq (Urdu: محبوب الحق; February 24, 1934 – July 16, 1998;PhD, FPAS), was a Pakistani game theorist, economist, and professor ofmicroeconomics at the University of Karachi who served as the 13th Finance Minister of Pakistan from April 10, 1985 till January 28, 1988.[SUP][1]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahbub_ul_Haq#cite_note-1)[/SUP] He was involved in the human development theory (HDP), and the founder of theHuman Development Report (HDR). According to Haq’s 1996 book *Reflections on Human Development his work also opened new avenues to policy proposals for human development paradigms, such as the 20:20 Global Compact and the setting up of the UN Economic Security Council that became the inspiration for the establishment of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.[SUP][2]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahbub_ul_Haq#cite_note-haq1-2)[/SUP] He served as chief economist of Planning Commission (Pakistan) during the 1960s, director of the World Bank’s Policy Planning Department in the 1970s. He is known as “the most articulate and persuasive spokesman for the developing world”.[SUP][3]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahbub_ul_Haq#cite_note-3)
Amartya Sen
[/SUP]***Amartya Kumar Sen (Bengali: অমর্ত্য সেন; born 3 November 1933), is an Indian economist and philosopher who since 1972 has taught and worked in theUnited Kingdom and the United States. He has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his work in welfare economics.
He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, distinguished fellow of All Souls College, Oxfordand a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he previously served as Master from 1998 to 2004.[SUP][4]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen#cite_note-Master_Camb-4)[/SUP]
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chhutti to nahin hoti 22 December ko?
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^^^^ no
Satish Dhawan
Satish Dhawan (25 September 1920 – 3 January 2002) was an Indianaerospace engineer, widely regarded as father of experimental fluid dynamicsresearch in India. Born in Srinagar, Dhawan was educated in India and further on in the United States. Dhawan was one of the most eminent researchers in the field of turbulence and boundary layers, leading the successful and ingenious development of Indian space programme. He succeeded Vikram Sarabhai, the founder of the Indian space programme, as Chairman of theIndian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 1972.
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…Panini should be thought of as the forerunner of the modern formal language theory used to specify computer languages. The Backus Normal Form was discovered independently by John Backus in 1959, but Panini’s notation is equivalent in its power to that of Backus and has many similar properties. It is remarkable to think that concepts which are fundamental to today’s theoretical computer science should have their origin with an Indian genius around 2500 years ago…