Ramanujan Quotes

9 quotes by 6 authors

• Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova,… — Michio Kaku
• 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 informal scale of… — Robert Kanigel
• In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians. — James R Newman
• I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that… — G. H. Hardy
• I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My… — John Edensor Littlewood
• Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA… — Robert Kanigel
• There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you… — George Andrews
• There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those which look the… — G. H. Hardy
• No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died… — G. H. Hardy

Who Wrote These Ramanujan Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 9 Ramanujan Quotes as follows:

• 3 Ramanujan Quotes by G. H. Hardy
• 2 Ramanujan Quotes by Robert Kanigel
• 1 Ramanujan Quote by Michio Kaku
• 1 Ramanujan Quote by James R Newman
• 1 Ramanujan Quote by John Edensor Littlewood
• 1 Ramanujan Quote by George Andrews