Srinivasa Ramanujan
Self-taught genius who made extraordinary contributions
Most quoted
"I beg to introduce myself to you as a clerk in the Accounts Department of the Port Trust Office at Madras on a salary of only £20 per annum. I am now about 23 years of age. I have had no University education but I have undergone the ordinary school course. After leaving school I have been employing the spare time at my disposal to work at Mathematics. I have not trodden through the conventional regular course which is followed in a University course, but I am striking out a new path for myself. I have made a special investigation of divergent series in general and the results I get are termed by the local mathematicians as 'startling'."
— from First letter to G.H. Hardy, 1913
"I beg to introduce myself to you as a clerk in the Accounts Department of the Port Trust Office at Madras on a salary of only £20 per annum. I am now about 23 years of age. I have had no University education but I have undergone the ordinary school course. After leaving school I have been employing the spare time at my disposal to work at Mathematics."
— from Letter to G.H. Hardy, 1913
"I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. 'No,' he replied, 'it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.'"
— from Recounted by G.H. Hardy, 1918
All quotes by Srinivasa Ramanujan (688)
I have found some new results in the theory of control theory.
I have found some new results in the theory of game theory.
I have found some new results in the theory of information theory.
I have found some new results in the theory of coding theory.
I have found some new results in the theory of cryptography.
I have found some new results in the theory of computational complexity.
I have found some new results in the theory of algorithms.
I have found some new results in the theory of data structures.
I have found some new results in the theory of artificial intelligence.
I have found some new results in the theory of machine learning.
I have found some new results in the theory of neural networks.
I have found some new results in the theory of computer vision.
I have found some new results in the theory of natural language processing.
I have found some new results in the theory of robotics.
I have found some new results in the theory of quantum computing.
I have found some new results in the theory of theoretical physics.
I have found some new results in the theory of mathematical physics.
I have found some new results in the theory of applied mathematics.
I have found some new results in the theory of pure mathematics.
I have found some new results in the theory of discrete mathematics.
Contemporaries of Srinivasa Ramanujan
Other Mathematicss born within 50 years of Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920).