He might have tried. He must've considering that he was such a great mathematician. But he probably didn't have significant contributions, else everyone would know about it. However, it is said that some mathematicians use in methods even now while trying to prove the conjecture. 803 Views · View Upvoters ... read more
There is no direct evidence that he did try to prove the conjecture. But a method that he and Hardy developed, later on modified by Littlewood, called the circle method forms the crux of almost all important results in additive number theory now. read more
· Goldbach’s conjecture: Goldbach’s conjecture is one of the important illustrations of ramanujan contribution towards the proof of the conjecture. read more