An equation for me has no meaning, unless it expresses a thought of God.Srinivasa Ramanujan
“No, it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.”
“No, it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.”
— SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN
Mathematician · 1887 – 1920
Srinivasa Ramanujan was a largely self-taught Indian mathematician who, working with G. H. Hardy at Cambridge, produced some 3,900 results in number theory, infinite series and continued fractions. His intuitive genius and early death at 32 made him one of mathematics' most celebrated figures.
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