Not really. R. Did not like Hardy. There are others.

Not unsung at all. You can't mention Ramanujan without mentioning Hardy.

@@ayushkhanna8126 the real 'unsung heros" of R.. events in England were 1 professor(whom I knew) Mordell USA and 2 professor Littlewood. R..., liking Mordells easy breezy style gave him clues to theorems for F.L.T.🤐 why not put 4 statues, Tushar. I think professor Hardy was way too 'provincial'.

Great idea, include littlewood as well.

@@robertflynn6686 Sure. We have no problem celebrating all of them. Great minds, in spite of their internal politics are worthy of respect.

@PussyIsHere 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@richierich8334 Mozart composed at 5 what 50 years could not do

Richie Rich That is simply not true. His compositions at a young age has shown a decent level of maturity. You could also see from his manuscripts that music came naturally to him

@@richierich8334 you Salieri fan

@@seanseow1499 Not true?? So Mozart lied about his entire childhood then did he?? Or is it you knew him personally and refute what he told you??

evariste Galoi is more genius I feel like. And died at such a young age for a stupid reason

Even Ramanujan was subject to the savage racism of the English. This has also doomed British corporations. But America saw profitability as the single goal. Like India, English are still suffering because of their own Caste systems. And it appears to be getting worse.

@@kiritibhattacharya2772England doesn’t have a caste system ??

The price you pay for knowledge. Ramanujan admitted that he received his equations from a goddess. Now you know its not from him but from an external source. Ramanujan was the conduit.

Yes, same goes for Galois, who died a pointless death.

not really...bc, most of the mathematicians or scientist in general discover/ achieved their greatness before the age of 40. Therefore the Fields Medal is also given to people younger than 40. There's a saying Mathematics is a young men's game. Once you pass 40, rarely you contribute anything significant.

The mind does not improve as people age. 30-35 is about the peak.

@ the mind did not improve but the output increase in the sense that in few more years he could have publish some more thousands conjecture ( which he think to be true)

@@richardfeynman9341 Ramanujan is unique ,believe me ,we would have reached stars if he had lived his full life

@@richardfeynman9341 cap, Euler, Gauss and Erdös created a copious amount of theorems throughout their lifes. Their names can be found in most mathematical fields, where as Ramanujan is limited to a very niche part of number theory and some analysis.

This is such a powerful and esoteric statement.

Ah the one near Tidel park. Saw it's construction while i worked near there. I even had the privilege of visiting his ancestral home, it was not far from mine. It was a rather small house in a narrow lone. Kind of typical for a tamil brahmin of modest means at that time.

@@satyasarma1472 Why can't romance and reality exist together? Some romantic stories are true and some true stories are romantic.

@@satyasarma1472 You don't understand the word "romantic". Among it's meanings, it is "marked by the imaginative or emotional appeal of what is heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious, or idealized" (Merriam-Webster online dictionary, def 4a). "Romantic" does not imply fiction as sujit mohanty was obviously using the word.

Satya Sarma it’s not that roman in Slavic languages...

Ramanujan......the most beautiful unorthodox mathematical mind ever existed till now........its amazing that he himself claims that hindu goddess namagiri speaks the maths with him..i mean now its impossible for us to define his genius........on one side his works are already great and on the other he claimed that God himself inspired him to write them.........i feel myself so small between all this story to even imagine the genius of that man......but he died very very early..

Yes, those hand written fine lines reflects his integrity and ingenuity on the papers and prints profoundly his great passion to Mathematics.

woah deep!

Thoughtful!

@Andris Falks my theory is same, he was definitely killed.

RezaRob3 and that’s a log scale 🙂

How about John von Neumann?

@HenryDavidT A lot of good points there, but I think it's not about who was greater and competition. It's just that the amount of knowledge was already so vast that no one could do it all. So, theoretical physics was already very specialized and separate from mathematics. Einstein needed the math and mathematicians get motivated partly by physics (but not just physics). We need them all immensely!

@@Straight_Talk he is better known as god of computer architecture

@@subhabratabasu9804 von Neumann was also the greatest mathematician of the 20th Century.

@@richierich8334 Clearly he could have only known *of* him on the re-telling. In the same way that you or I would learn *of* a dead relative who died before our birth.

@@richierich8334 Valid point .. this must surely prove that Prof Bollobas knew everything about Ramanujam very very well.

That's humility of great people

We?

gematria79 are you German?

Two factors made Ramanujan. 1) The Brahmins at the temple of Namakkal, taught him Vaishnav Yoga, that helped him acquire the insight into mathematics (the mind of god) and 2)As a result he got inspired by the Vedic mindset that enabled the discovery of number theory, geometry etc., and infinite series (during the Gupta period). He claimed to have been helped by Vishnu's consort, Namagiri.

What makes Ramanujan special was that it was also barely comprehensible to mathematicians. Hans Bethe once said:" I am an ordinary genius, I do things faster than most people but everything I do and how I do it can be explained. Feynman is a magician, no one understands how he goes from A to B. Von Neuman was not human." Ramanujan possessed an inhuman quality like Mozart. As I said above he had "idiot savant" types of skills. Vision is, when you think about it, an enormous feet of computation power given to us by millions of years of evolution. Our rather slow brain identifies thousands of things at the blink of an eye literally. (Try to program pattern recognition: still AI is far from it). Ramanujan could do with math feats of power similar to what we do with sight. A truly exceptional human.

You are correct , .

@@jceepf Where did you get the Hans Bethe quote? (and thanks)

Very interesting, brilliant minds.

@@Antimbala31 The Indian Clerk Novel by David Leavitt

@@Antimbala31 i think its the name of the movie,not a book.the movie is good and i saw it after reading the book

@@Antimbala31 thanks i found this book in a second- hand shop.never heard about this man before.i may look it up,but if the book came after the movie i would not.i got the essence of this man from the book i read .i am proud of this man and happy that such people can be among us.

Ved Yadav that’s very violent of you

@Ved .. it is called 'hats off'. Tipping hats or taking hats off is an English tradition when they greet each other. Not 'heads off'. Click the three dots and edit your answer. Think before you write. Think whether it makes sense? it does not make sense even in any Indian language.

Idiot bihari "hats off" not" heads off".

😂😂😂

Heads off has a kind of dark comic aspect to it though. I don't entirely object.

Yet Ramanujan attrubuted maths to only have meaning to him if it came from God, so this point is kind of moot as God, in Ramanujan's eyes was what gave him that success. How can one be jealous of themselves?

Don't be stupid

Ramanujan's amazing yet tragic story always brings great emotions in people. And, when they hear inspiring stories, they are moved. Ramanujan was unique talent and perhaps the most brilliant mind ever but his life's ending was tragic, he would have achieved even more, if he didn't die so young.

I assume you are Indian and justifiably are proud of Ramanujan. but please, don't forget, there were also Newton, Euler, Gauss, Fourier, Riemann, Poincare, Hilbert and so many more accomplished and intelligent mathematicians.

i wouldnt call him the greatest but they is a true genius

@david edbrooke-coffin no., he is right

It's hard to measure intelligence with proficiency in one field. If he was a polymath in other subjects to the same degree, i'd agree. I think he was probably one of the greatest mathematicians alongside jakobi and euler.

@@ashotdjrbashian9606 Yes Euler was great but not smarter than Ramanujan

nope. He was from a small town in tamil speaking state where nobody knows hindi or about North India. He neither knew nor approached any North Indian mathematician of his time for help. Those who advised him were local and they guided him to Cambridge rather than Delhi or Mumbai.. And there are no books on aryabatta or his work available in ramanujan's state.. so he wouldn't have known much about aryabatta etc anyway

Wow!!! I also want to know the recent Indian mathematics.. do u have any name as well ?🤔🤔

Wow!!! I also want to know the recent Indian mathematics.. do u have any name as well ?🤔🤔

Ramanujan is a religious man. Ramanujan told G.H Hardy that the expression is nothing to him unless it is from god. Which simply means he continued mathematics because god gave knowledge to him about mathematics. Ramanujan also told hardy that all of his ideas was given by his god sometimes in his dream sometimes it is written in his body

@@kartz2010 oh ..u hate brahmins in ur state and say them Aryan and north- Indians but after getting success u claim him Tamil . He made only indian friends in college .

Antithesis

@@vector8310 Thanks!

@@bigfootpegrande lmfao..do you even know how your subconcious mind works? Dreams are just an expression of your subconsciousness. Once u think of something so deeply, you'll see them in your dreams bc your subconscious minds keep those things in the tabs. The person who discover the structure of Benzene ring also saw it in his dreams, but he didn't attribute them to God/Gods... If you care something and give importance enough, your subscousness will show u in your dream. It's a simple Neurology and Psychology. GO read some more books apart from your religious textbooks/

​@@richardfeynman9341 No, I don't. Do you? ...and Neurology (sic) and psychology are NEVER simple, my friend. A user with such a Scientist name should know that. Neuroscience is an untamed land, still and to downplay the inspiration of such a genius as Ramanujan is plain arrogance.

DMK supporters will hate Ramanujan

@ kitchen

Ironically Hardy was a staunch atheist-who committed suicide in the end.

@@DrVKParmar suicide? Why?

How we live is more important than how we go. Ultimately everyone and everything we know will go. That is destiny. We are just witnessing this beauty of creation.

@@DrVKParmar I don't think so. He attempted suicide at one time but died of other causes (I don't know what the cause of death was).

@@DrVKParmar it's not correct

Thanks; I was wondering if the coronavirus phobia had eroded my brain

@Nostalgia For Infinity and just where do you all geniuses draw their inspiration from?

@Nostalgia For Infinity Facepalm!

Nothing. This "Western Education" would've leashed him and put limits to his intellect. Ramanujan used all forms of intelligence, not just the intellect. Victorian education, based solely on the intellect, would've crushed him or even worse, he'd never have blossomed.

A genius cannot be contained!

Its Mahalanobis please correct your spelling.

@@timmazumdar7167 I was actually stunned, the same guy who came up with ISI , Planning Commision, the economic model had been with Ramanujan. If India is what it's today in its industrialised form, we owe some credit to him.

Blaming caste takes the blame away..

Definition of natural number: The natural numbers include the positive integers (also known as non-negative integers). In other words, natural numbers are a set of all the whole numbers excluding 0. As a mathematician himself, he used the word which describes positive integer.

@@anjankailash6145 Quoting someone must be as it is. You can't quote someone imposing your own words to it. Like I am quoting you, "In other words, natural numbers are a set of all the whole numbers excluding 0". Well, this statement of yours is subjected to ambiguity based on mathematical point of view. Even the term "whole number" you are using here, have inconsistent definitions (a whole number typically has 3 different definitions). The natural numbers have different definitions depending on the book, sometimes the natural numbers is just the postivite integers, but other times the natural numbers are actually the non-negative numbers ( *including zero* ). The definition you are using partly depends on the country you are studying. "If you want to be completely unambigiuous, you should use the words positive integers and nonnegative integers for these sets."

He did face racism.Watch the video from 11:00 to 11:10

That's how we lost a genius.

Ramanujan's genius unlike others was not only poverty, but access to math's books. Newton and others didn't have this disadvantage. Newton is my favourtite scientist but in terms of natural talent I think Ramanujan surpasses even the great Newton. Ramanujan's formulas are simply baffling like how he come up those insane formulas. He seems to have different way of solving.

When the graph of a function goes below the x-axis, that counts as negative area. So the integral of sinx over a period is 0. If you want to instead count it as positive area you need to integrate |sinx|, the absolute value of sinx. The integral of that from 0 to 2pi is 4, since we just multiply by 4 the integral of sinx from 0 to pi/2 (which is 1). Take your schizo meds.

Hall, not whole 😂

He could not dine in Hall with the others because he had been brought up not to "interdine" (as Indians used to say).

Faithless Hound - what?

@@Enemji Perhaps I am wrong. I suggested that he was influenced by the religious prohibition of "inter-dining" (eating with people of other religions or castes), but others have suggested that he did not trust that the college cooks were providing him with strictly vegetarian dishes. Was there a militant non-vegetarian among the staff? Menu options were probably reduced during the war. One hundred years later, it will be difficult to tell.

Faithless Hound - True. One of my neighbors till this day packs his food from home, even when he is travelling. It is more about not trusting what is put in the food rather than discrimination.

The year professor Bollobas spent an undergraduate year at Cambridge.

Tesla is the most over ratted man What did he do ?

@@benefactor4309 Tesla invented electricity, the kind you use everyday. Unless you live in a car.

@@benefactor4309 what did he do ? he invented ac current he was the first person who made robotic object first time in the world that worked on radio frequency signal

@@jamesb9499 Tesla did not invent electrivity.

@@Nk-lu2ei Tesla did not invent ac current. He was not the first one to work on remote control. Curb your ignorance.

@rf4life Thanks

I am not sure directly but there's a letter that Russell wrote to his mistress at the time, I believe Lady Ottoline Morell, (paraphrasing but pretty close to the actual quote ) that 'I just saw Hardy and Littlewood in a state of wild excitement saying that they had just discovered a second Newton - a poor Indian clerk'.

really? i thought he was very eloquent..and what do you mean foreigners also fumble? Like they're aliens or something.

@@vetiarvind No foreigner are not aliens 😂. I meant to say that Foreigners also fumble when they speak English.

@@pritpalsinghh it seems English isn't his first language.

He is a Hungarian

Racism why?

@@markkuuss never heared of?! looool

@@GoodbyeMrChips-do2fl was he facing racism in India?

@@markkuuss don't ask me, ask indians, blacks, chinese...etc. in England lol

Time to shame for not understanding, what a brahmin is, don't think great without understanding basics of what it is