Ramanujan , however, is nothing like Hardy.
Ramanujan is a devout Hindu.
Ramanujan , famous numbers theorist from India.
Like Ramanujan is an 80, some kind of crazy thing like that.
- While Ramanujan struggled, Hardy and he did make a breakthrough.
And Ramanujan said, 1729?
And Ramanujan just knew that.
So he knew that Ramanujan was special.
This is Srinivasa Ramanujan , arguably the most talented or naturally gifted mathematician of the 20th century.
If you wanna know more about Ramanujan 's struggles, and what made him such a genius, there's an upcoming video on our channel, Fern.
of course has interactions with Ramanujan and all the wonderful ideas about infinite series,
that's a page from the mathematician ramanujan 's uh what was known as his
And his immediate reaction was to invite Ramanujan to come to Cambridge.
And so, Ramanujan finally sets out for England.
In Cambridge, Hardy and Ramanujan start working together.
Ramanujan comes to mind, as a mathematician, just out of the blue can come up with these identities.
And because it was one of the last conversations that Ramanujan had before he left to go back to India, and before he died, that conversation
Ramanujan never really learned how to provide proof to his theorems.
G.H. Hardy worked with Ramanujan .
It's sent by a completely unknown mathematician from India, Srinivasa Ramanujan .
And it's kind of wonderful, I think, that Ramanujan , some 100 years after he started corresponding with Hardy is remembered in this way,
Ramanujan writes that he's a poor clerk,
The letter is over 10 pages long and is packed with over 100 theorems, many of them highly advanced, yet Ramanujan provides no proofs
Then one night his mother has a dream, a goddess appears, and tells her to let Ramanujan fulfill his destiny.
Hmm, didn't expect to get emotional for you, but this is what I do when I think about Ramanujan .
He's also a star on the Numberphile YouTube network, where his most popular videos include a discussion of Ramanujan 's sum of all the positive integers--
And yet, he said, if there's only one great thing I've done in my life, it was to bring Ramanujan over to England.
And Hardy took a train from Cambridge to London, took a taxi from the station to the nursing home, went into the hospital, sat next to Ramanujan .
And, struggling to make conversation, perhaps, Ramanujan said, what was the name of the taxi you came in?
It's Ken Keeler's way of just acknowledging this great genius, Ramanujan .