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 ABC conjecture.
I have found some new results in the theory of Erdos-Straus conjecture.
I have found some new results in the theory of Collatz conjecture.
I have found some new results in the theory of Catalan's conjecture.
I have found some new results in the theory of Beal's conjecture.
I have found some new results in the theory of perfect numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of amicable numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of sociable numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of abundant numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of deficient numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of practical numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of weird numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of untouchable numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of highly composite numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of highly abundant numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of superabundant numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of colossal abundant numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of primorial numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of factorial numbers.
I have found some new results in the theory of Fibonacci numbers.
Contemporaries of Srinivasa Ramanujan
Other Mathematicss born within 50 years of Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920).