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 analytic number theory.
I have found some new results in the theory of Diophantine equations.
I have found some new results in the theory of elliptic curves.
I have found some new results in the theory of modular forms and functions.
I have found some new results in the theory of automorphic forms.
I have found some new results in the theory of L-functions.
I have found some new results in the theory of zeta functions.
I have found some new results in the theory of prime numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of distribution of prime numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of Waring's problem.
I have found some new results in the theory of Goldbach's conjecture.
I have found some new results in the theory of twin prime conjecture.
I have found some new results in the theory of Riemann hypothesis.
I have found some new results in the theory of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.
I have found some new results in the theory of Langlands program.
I have found some new results in the theory of Grothendieck's standard conjectures.
I have found some new results in the theory of Hodge conjecture.
I have found some new results in the theory of Tate conjecture.
I have found some new results in the theory of Mordell conjecture.
I have found some new results in the theory of Fermat's Last Theorem.
Contemporaries of Srinivasa Ramanujan
Other Mathematicss born within 50 years of Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920).