Quotes About Ramanujan

#1. There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those which look the easiest will soon discover. In some the interest lies very deep, in others comparatively near the surface; but there is not one which is not curious and entertaining.

G.H. Hardy

#2. That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.

Freeman Dyson

#3. Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package.

Robert Kanigel

#4. I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said ... "

John Edensor Littlewood

#5. For my part, it is difficult for me to say what I owe to Ramanujan - his originality has been a constant source of suggestion to me ever since I knew him, and his death is one of the worst blows I have ever had.

G.H. Hardy

#6. Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.

Lawrence Young

#7. The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape.
[On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]

Freeman Dyson

#8. They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

G.H. Hardy

#9. There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you feel is your own.[About verifying Ramanujan's equations in a newly found manuscript.]

George Andrews

#10. In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.

James R Newman

#11. As we to the brutes, poets are to us.

George Meredith

#12. Truth is always the most important thing, even when it leads us into dark places.

Deborah Ellis

#13. If I can make an economic deal with Amazon that works for them and works for me, OK - I'll make it available. But I don't want to be part of restrictions that make life difficult for my guests.

Gerry Lopez

#14. 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

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

Srinivasa Ramanujan

#16. I can't see how I'll make it a year this way," he said.
"It seems impossible, I know. But when we're old and doddering, this year will seem like a blink.

Paula McLain

#17. Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think.

Jesse Eisenberg

#18. I personally feel that I should support people who are doing good work and people should also support such good work.

Aamir Khan

#19. You don't need directions, just point yourself to the top and go!

Dwayne Johnson

#20. She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b) what kind of bathroom it was. The door merely said H.
Was she an H? Was H "hers"? It could just as easily be "his". Or "Helicopter Room: Not a Bathroom at All

Maureen Johnson