Srinivasa Ramanujan – The Man of Mathematics

Srinivasa Ramanujan was a Tamilian, raised in a poor family in a poor nation, and showed early aptitude by mastering a trigonometry text when he was about ten years old. During his high school years he studied a book about advanced mathematics, Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure Mathematics, by George Shoobridge Carr (1837-1914). Written [...]