Ramanujan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- James R Newman

#Simplicity #Ramanujan #Wonderful
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..."
-- John Edensor Littlewood

#Friendship #Wish #Ramanujan
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 of natural mathematical ability on which he assigned himself a 25 and Littlewood a 30. To David Hilbert, the most eminent mathematician of the day, he assigned an 80. To Ramanujan he gave 100.
-- Robert Kanigel

#Years #Ramanujan #Steps
Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package."
-- Robert Kanigel

#Math #Ramanujan #Done

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No one's perfect. And we've all made our mistakes and you just have to live with them and try to not make them again.