The story of Ramanujian:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
We have seen how two 19th century greatest mathematicians Cauchy and Gauss who were not helpful to two young unknown mathematicians Galois and Abel, now let’s see an opposite example — the discovery of an unknown math genius Ramanujian by the greatest Pure Mathematician in 20th century Prof G.H. Hardy.
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The book which changed their life:
1. GH Hardy: by Carmille Jordan’s Cours d’Analyse:
“I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read the remarkable work … and I learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.”
2. Ramanujan : George Carr’s
“A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure & Applied Mathematics”
(4,400 results without proofs)
3. Riemann : Legendre’s book
4. Hardy/Littlewood:
Landau 2-volume “Handbuch der Lehre von Der Verteilung der Primzahlen”
(Handbook of the Theory of the Distribution of Prime Numbers)
5. Atle Selverg (Norway): Ramanujan’s “Collected Papers”
Note: This blogger’s mathematics ‘fire’ is rekindled by John Derbyshire’s “Unknown Quantity”.
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