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Srinivasa Ramanujan Quotes

An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.

An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.

Srinivasa Ramanujan
Mean, Science, Equations
"The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould" by Jacob Aron, www.newscientist.com. April 08, 2016.

No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.

Srinivasa Ramanujan
Science, Two, Numbers
Quoted in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 26 May 1921

While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing.

Srinivasa Ramanujan
Writing, Numbers, Blood

To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful to me here to get a scholarship.

Srinivasa Ramanujan
Food, Science, Brain
Srinivasa Ramanujan (2015). “Collected Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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