Ramanujan's Notebooks

Its more like older generations of all sorts nailed cursive. Remember, back then 99% of all writing was handwriting. Even those who had typewriters only used them to make final drafts of documents - the first versions were all handwritten. The fact that people's handwriting back then was so good comes from them having ample opportunity to practice good handwriting.

I actually grew up there, and I remember that my teacher's would take points off for anything less than awesome handwriting. During math exams we'd basically do all the work on a separate sheet/scratch sheet and then copy it over to the final notebook we'd submit for grading. Great handwriting and neat notes were considered a sign of an educated person... (With the exception of doctors, they were required to have crazy handwriting, at least for prescriptions)

I want to add here , he use to write on napkins , used paper from patties while in canteen. He use to write on same paper with 4 different pen so that he could save page as much.Most time all thing can go in his head only.

He was genius in true sense.

I'm conscious of the audience here and attempting to connect a simile to things that happened a century ago. Nothing personal.

Yes. He did share his notebooks with E. H. Neville (Hardy's man sent to Madras to get Ramanujan to come to Cambridge).