Congruence Quote by James R Newman

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

... each of the 24 modes in the Ramanujan function corresponds to a physical vibration of a string. Whenever the string executes its complex…

— Michio Kaku

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

All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

— Leopold Kronecker

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

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

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

“The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value)…

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater…

— Martin Gardner

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

— Thomas Browne

“{ Replying to G. H. Hardy's suggestion that the number of a taxi (1729) was 'dull', showing off his spontaneous mathematical genius } No,…

— Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar