Indian mathematician (1887–1920)
A self-taught mathematician in early 1900s India who filled notebooks with theorems so strange that experts dismissed them — until G. H. Hardy saw pages that "defeated me completely; I had never seen anything in the least like them before."
Srinivasa Ramanujan developed his mathematical research alone, producing work too novel and unfamiliar for most professionals to recognize. In 1913 he wrote to G. H. Hardy at Cambridge, who saw the theorems as extraordinary and brought him to England. Over his short career Ramanujan compiled nearly 3,900 results — identities, equations, partition formulae, mock theta functions — many opening entire new areas of mathematics. He became one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society and the first Indian Fellow of Trinity College. Illness forced his return to India in 1919; he died the next year…
Sourced, dated quotes from Srinivasa Ramanujan
I beg to introduce myself to you as a clerk in the Accounts Department of the Port Trust Office at Madras...
Sir, an equation has no meaning for me unless it expresses a thought of GOD.
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