India has declared 2012 as "National Year of Mathematics"

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/NA10Df02.html


India celebrates the man who 'knew' infinity


India has declared 2012 as "National Year of Mathematics" as tribute to Srinivasa Ramanujan, an enigmatic maths maverick who despite dying aged just 32 had already achieved enough to still be spoken of alongside Isaac Newton, Euclid and Archemedes.

"Men and women of such dazzling brilliance and deep intellect are born but rarely," declared Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Chennai at a function on December 26, to celebrate the 125th birth anniversary of Ramanujan (December 22, 1887-April 26, 1920). The Indian government has also announced Ramanujan's birthday would be celebrated every year as "National Mathematics Day".

Mathematics, as Manmohan pointed out, is the "mother science", the universal language of truth through numbers, touching daily use, technology and life - working out time, distance, calendar, the grocery prices and passenger air craft navigation, from algorithms in Internet search engines, to creating secure credit card transactions and planning national budgets.

Where there is a civilization, there are numbers. And whatever happens in this world and to this world, two plus two will always equal four, and will be so for infinity remain as a truth verifiable in the five fingers of one hand.

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many of our kids can barely subtract or divide - forget fractions

can you just see our govt. declaring the year of Mathematics

the article ends with: "As long as the spirit of inquiry is alive, his legacy will pass from one generation to the next."

good on you India