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Macro polo's biography is synonymous with the story of his travels. He embarked on his expedditions at a very young age which lasted 24years. He journeyed through asia and reached further beyond mongolia. he reached china and became a condifdant of kublai khan. He travelled the whole of china and returned to tell the tale, which became the greatest travelogue. Incredible through these stories seem to be, most of his accounts are so detailed and accurate that the tales overall seem true.

Scientists have called him a genius, a prophet, a visionary. He transformed the study of optics and established the principles of celestial workings. His universal laws of gravity gave us an insight into the mysterious forces exerted by the Earth. It was he who, for the first time, explained the nature of tides. He discovered the differential and integral Calculus. A new system of chronology was invented by him. He created a system of the universe of force and inertia and mass, of action and reaction that still remains reliable and efficient. Stephen Hawking and Werner Israel have stated that "Newton's theories will never be outmoded."

A sensitives stubborn, self-willed child from a poor tamil family, srinivasa ramanujan grew up to be one of india's greatest mathematicians, whose discoveries continue to puzzle experts the world over . This eccentric genius who found spriritual meaning in mathematics, formulated a theory of reality around zero and infinity.This is the story of a clerk in the madras port trustwho eventually become a fellow of trinity college, cambridge and his english mentors.