Srinivasa Ramanujan
One of the greatest mathematical minds
To put it in simple terms,
Srinivasa Ramanujan was a
simple, impoverished Indian man
with a great interest in the higher
realms of mathematics. He never
had any formal education in
mathematics but developed his
early interest in the subject from
a book that he chanced upon. He
hardly did well at school (except,
of course, in mathematics) and
ended up as a clerk in the Madras
Port Trust in India. However he
kept handwritten notes of his
mathematical theories, theorems
and algorithms that he ultimately
sent to Prof. Hardy at Cambridge.
The notes were so impressive
that Hardy brought Ramanujan to
Cambridge. The collaboration between the two based on
Ramanujan’s theories , changed the world of mathematics forever.
Today, Ramanujan’s works have impacts on a huge array of topics
including string theory and crystallography and he is compared to
geniuses like Issac Newton and Archemedis.
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