Math is still catching up to the mysterious genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Math is still catching up to the mysterious genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan. This is really great for it’s explanation of his work in a way that I could follow. “Ramanujan brings life to the myth of the self-taught genius. He grew up poor and uneducated and did much of his research while isolated in southern India, barely able to afford food. In 1912, when he was 24, he began to send a series of letters to prominent mathematicians. These were mostly ignored, but one recipient, the English mathematician G.H. Hardy, corresponded with Ramanujan for a year and eventually persuaded him to come to England, smoothing the way with the colonial bureaucracies.” ~ learn more