Is Ramanujan overrated as a mathematician?

My personal view is that such one-on-one match-ups between this mathematician and that mathematician (or this composer and that composer, or this ballerina and that ballerina) are almost entirely pointless. read more

G.H Hardy was the mentor and professor during Ramanujans tenure at Trinity. read more

Srinivasa Ramanujan, (born December 22, 1887, Erode, India—died April 26, 1920, Kumbakonam), Indian mathematician whose contributions to the theory of numbers include pioneering discoveries of the properties of the partition function. read more

10 Things to Know about Srinivasa Ramanujan, the Genius Who Continues to Amaze the World by Varun Jadia April 20, 2016, 6: 33 pm T he world will soon remember the renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan once again, as a biopic on his life, named The Man Who Knew Infinity, is set to release this April. read more