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It is unfortunate that Ramanujan passed away at a young age. Had he been alive a few more years, perhaps with the help of Hardy, we may have seen some new mathematical foundations, that enabled him to create between 3000 & 4000 equations that mathematicians even today are struggling to find proofs for.

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I love learning about people who are incredible outliers. This quote really struck me.

"Paul Erdos has passed on to us Hardy's personal ratings of mathematicians. Suppose that we rate mathematicians on the basis of pure talent on a scale from 0 to 100, Hardy gave himself a score of 25, Littlewood 30, Hilbert 80 and Ramanujan 100" - Bruce C Berndt

[1] http://www.imsc.res.in/~rao/ramanujan.html

Here is what I found incredible: he was mediocre even in his Math exams (and failed the rest).

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/did-srinivasa-ramanuja...

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