In April, on the 100th anniversary of Ramanujan’s arrival in Cambridge, the source of his equations was finally found. Ken Ono of Emory University, his graduate student Michael Griffin, and their ...

He was fond of saying that his equations had been bestowed on him by the gods. More than 100 years later, mathematicians are still trying to catch up to Ramanujan’s divine genius, as his visions ...

Born in 1887 to a store clerk and a homemaker, Ramanujan was a child prodigy who came up with many mathematical conjectures, proofs and solutions to equations that had never before been solved.

Ramanujan, a self-taught genius, ... "An equation has no meaning for me unless it expresses a thought of God." FROM BEGGING FOR A JOB TO BECOMING PART OF ROYAL SOCIETY. At 23, ...

Need proof that genius arises in unexpected places? Consider the story of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Between 1913 and 1920, this impoverished clerk from South India—a two-time college ...

The Inmate Solving the World's Hardest Equations; Why Some People Think 2+2=5; ... Ramanujan arrived in England in 1914 to work with G.H. Hardy, a number theorist at the University of Cambridge.

Actor Dev Patel, who plays mathematician Ramanujan in The Man who Knew Infinity, has grown to deeply admire the character that he plays. “The amount of sacrifices Ramanujan might have had to do ...