They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
For my part, it is difficult for me to say what I owe to Ramanujan - his originality has been a constant… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729,… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything… — George Andrews Copy Share Image
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
“I still say to myself when I am depressed, and find myself forced to listen to pompous and tiresome people, 'Well, I… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
... each of the 24 modes in the Ramanujan function corresponds to a physical vibration of a string. Whenever the string executes… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image