Ramanujan, born in Tanjore District, India , showed mathematics ability when he was a child, but was not well educated due to poor family background. In 1904, he won a scholarship to study at Burgonham University, but failed to graduate due to partial subjects. After 1907, he tried hard to make a living, but he still studied mathematics by himself. In 1912, he published a paper "Some Properties of Bernoulli Numbers" in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society and made his mark. Later, with the assistance of friends, I wrote a letter to the British mathematician Hardy, stating his research in number theory, and enumerating the theorems and conjectures obtained in other areas. Hardy was amazed by his talent, and in 1914 recommended and funded others to study at Cambridge University. From then on Ramanujan was both a student of Hardy and a collaborator of Hardy. In the following years, Ramanu published a large number of research results, covering many fields such as prime number distribution theory, integer partitioning, elliptic functions, hypergeometric functions, divergent series, and so on
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The Man Who Knew Infinity movie plot
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The Man Who Knew Infinity quotes
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S. Ramanujan: Don't you see? An equation has no meaning to me... unless it expresses a thought of God.
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S. Ramanujan: What do you see?
Janaki: Sand.
S. Ramanujan: Imagine if we could look so closely we could see each grain, each particle. You see there are patterns in everything.
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The death of a young mathematician, a natural disaster? Or man-made disaster? - "The Knowing Boundless"
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Pursuit of purity itself is divinity
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Genius is probably the rough jade who is struggling to find a soulmate
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Reflections on life, thoughts on "The One Who Knows No End" 18/7, 2021
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"Those Who Know No Boundaries" - Infinite Numbers in a Limited Life