Question 908: The Dots

X was born on 22 December 1887. His father worked as a clerk in a shop and his mother was a housewife. In December 1889, X had smallpox and recovered, unlike thousands who succumbed to the disease that year.
On 1 October 1892, X was enrolled at the local school. Just before the age of 10, in November 1897, he passed his primary examinations in English, geography and arithmetic. With his scores, he finished first in the district. That year, X entered Town Higher Secondary School where he encountered formal mathematics for the first time. By age 11, he had exhausted the mathematical knowledge of two college students who were lodgers at his home. He was later lent a book on advanced trigonometry which he completely mastered this book by the age of 13 and discovered sophisticated theorems on his own. By 14, he assisted the school in the logistics of assigning its 1200 students (each with their own needs) to its 35-odd teachers. When he was 17, he independently developed and investigated the Bernoulli numbers and calculated Euler's constant up to 15 decimal places. Which wonderkid?

Answer: Srinivas Ramanujan