5. A thought of a 7 year old
``If no fruits are divided among no one, will
each still get one? Is zero divided by zero is
also one?”
6. Books Ramanujan studied
• S.L. Loney’s Trigonometry (1893). Ramanujan
mastered it when he was 13.
• A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and
Applied Mathematics by George Schoobridge
Carr. Ramanujan read this synopsis around
1903.
7. Failing in F.A.
• Ramanujan joined the Government college at
Kumbakonam. He failed his F.A. exams
miserably. (1904-1905)
• He then joined Pachaippa’s college at Madras
where he would fail again on his F.A. exams.
On his physiology exam, he would write: `` Sir,
this is my undigested part of the Digestion
chapter”.(1906-1907)
11. The Port Trust Clerical Job
Sir,
I understand there is a clerkship vacant in your office, and I beg
to apply for the same. I have passed the matriculation
examination and studied up to the F.A. but was prevented from
pursuing my studies further owing to several outward
circumstances. I have, however, been devoting all my time to
mathematics and developing the subject. I can say I am quite
confident I can do justice to my work if I am appointed to the
post. I therefore beg to request that you will be good enough
to confer the appointment on me.
I beg to remain,
9th
february 1912 Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
S. Ramanujan.
21. Who doesn’t love cricket?
• ``The problem is most easily grasped in the
language of cricket’’
22. Who doesn’t love cricket?
• ``The problem is most easily grasped in the
language of cricket’’
• His highest accolade was to rate a
mathematical proof, say, as being ``In the
Hobbs Class’’
23. Who doesn’t love cricket?
• ``The problem is most easily grasped in the
language of cricket’’
• His highest accolade was to rate a
mathematical proof, say, as being ``In the
Hobbs Class’’
• Her sister would lose her eye as a child, when
Hardy, playing carelessly with a cricket bat,
struck her; she has to wear a glass eye for the
rest of her life.
24. Hardy and God
• Once, as he and a clergy mean walked in the
fog, they saw a boy with a string and stick. The
clergyman likened God’s presence to a kite,
felt but unseen. In the fog he told young
Hardy, ``you cannot see the kite flying, but
you feel the pull of the string.’’ But in the fog,
Hardy thought, there is no wind and no kite
can fly.
27. Hardy’s New Year Resolutions
• Prove the Riemann Hypothesis.
• Make 211 not out in the fourth innings of the
last test match at the Oval.
28. Hardy’s New Year Resolutions
• Prove the Riemann Hypothesis.
• Make 211 not out in the fourth innings of the
last test match at the Oval.
• Find an argument for the nonexistence of God
which shall convince the general public.
29. Hardy’s New Year Resolutions
• Prove the Riemann Hypothesis.
• Make 211 not out in the fourth innings of the
last test match at the Oval.
• Find an argument for the nonexistence of God
which shall convince the general public.
• Be the first man at the top of Mt. Everest.
30. Hardy’s New Year Resolutions
• Prove the Riemann Hypothesis.
• Make 211 not out in the fourth innings of the
last test match at the Oval.
• Find an argument for the nonexistence of God
which shall convince the general public.
• Be the first man at the top of Mt. Everest
• Be proclaimed the first president of the
U.S.S.R. of Great Britain and Germany.
31. Hardy’s New Year Resolutions
• Prove the Riemann Hypothesis.
• Make 211 not out in the fourth innings of the
last test match at the Oval.
• Find an argument for the nonexistence of God
which shall convince the general public.
• Be the first man at the top of Mt. Everest
• Be proclaimed the first president of the
U.S.S.R. of Great Britain and Germany.
• Murder Mussolini.
