Garden Quote by Freeman Dyson

For my part, it is difficult for me to say what I owe to Ramanujan - his originality has been a constant source of…

— G. H. Hardy

They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

— G. H. Hardy

Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting…

— Michio Kaku

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…

— G. H. Hardy

There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do…

— George Andrews

I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends."…

— John Edensor Littlewood

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…

— G. H. Hardy

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…

— Robert Kanigel

“If you recall, in Ramanujan's letters to English mathematicians, he claimed that 1 + 2 + 3 +...= -1/12. He was so surprised when…

— Matt Parker

Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting…

— Anonymous

In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted…

— James R Newman

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois…

— Anonymous