In January 1913, a young Indian clerk in Madras (now Chennai) mailed a thick letter to a famous British mathematician, G. H. Hardy, at Cambridge. The writer Srinivasa Ramanujan said he had no ...
Every December 22, India celebrates National Mathematics Day as a comfortable tribute to Srinivasa Ramanujan: A genius remembered, a nation proud, a few school competitions, a poster or two. But ...
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 ...
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