Friendship Quote by John Edensor Littlewood
“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 reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said..."”
![“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 the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest…” quote by G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af7/g-h-hardy-8763_cab_i-remember-once-going-to-see-him-ramanuj_1278943.jpg)
![“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.” quote by G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/360/g-h-hardy-8763_being-true_they-formulae-1-10-1-12-of-ramanujan-mus_364964.jpg)
![“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.” quote by James R Newman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/217/james-r-newman-42796_congruence_in-the-simplest-array-of-digits-ramanuja_1442063.jpg)
![“I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything out of geometry. To have disliked or failed to get on with other [mathematical] subjects need mean nothing; much drill and…” quote by John Edensor Littlewood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ad0/john-edensor-littlewood-23851_born_i-constantly-meet-people-who-are-doubtfu_1210950.jpg)
