Srinivasa Ramanujan

The Clerk-Maxwell of self-taught mathematics, whose letter of theorems to Hardy opened a partnership that reshaped number theory.

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1887 – 1920

Core Principles & Analysis

• He worked as a clerk in Madras while filling notebooks with unproven theorems.
• Hardy rated his letter alongside Gauss and Euler's, and brought him to Trinity in 1914.
• His lost notebook kept generating results for decades after his death at thirty-two.