Ability Quote by Robert Kanigel

“Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and smash a…

— Henry Hallett Dale

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

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

“I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever allow himself…

— G.H. Hardy

“Let no one read my principles who is not a mathematician,” he famously declared (less famous is the fact that the principles he was…

— Ross King

“Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa…

— Mario Livio

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than…

— Anonymous

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

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

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

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or…

— W. H. Auden

“{ 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