Srinivasa Ramanujan

I don’t know - I just do … https://youtube.com/shorts/g5wWir2J6Kc

Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan - https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-genius-math-is-still-catching-up-20241021/ - Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today.

1. Hardy, a mathematical giant in his own right, is said to have quipped that his greatest contribution to mathematics was the discovery of Ramanujan.
2. He ( Ramanujan ) was fond of saying that his equations had been bestowed on him by the gods.
3. In 1904, he was granted a full scholarship to the Government Arts College in Kumbakonam, the small city where he had grown up, in what is now the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. But he ignored all subjects besides math and lost his scholarship within a year.
4. He later enrolled in another university, this time in Madras (now Chennai), the provincial capital some 250 kilometers north. Again he flunked out.

Genius