Prof. Hardy is a real unsung hero in the story of Ramanujan! During the British Raj, much of Indian talent was despised and discouraged in India by the powers that were, and still Ramanujan was able to rise above all these hurdles put in his path. We must have a statue of Hardy and Ramanujan together somewhere to commemorate that wonderful and real partnership between two extraordinary individuals.
@@ayushkhanna8126 the real 'unsung heros" of R.. events in England were 1 professor(whom I knew) Mordell USA and 2 professor Littlewood. R..., liking Mordells easy breezy style gave him clues to theorems for F.L.T.🤐 why not put 4 statues, Tushar. I think professor Hardy was way too 'provincial'.
Still to this date, I get goosebumps thinking just how much more he could have revolutionized the world of mathematics, if he had lived a few more years.
Even Ramanujan was subject to the savage racism of the English. This has also doomed British corporations. But America saw profitability as the single goal. Like India, English are still suffering because of their own Caste systems. And it appears to be getting worse.
Richie Rich That is simply not true. His compositions at a young age has shown a decent level of maturity. You could also see from his manuscripts that music came naturally to him
The dude understood the most complex of subjects on his own and actually had acquired more advanced knowledge the collective history of mathematics took centuries to do
not really...bc, most of the mathematicians or scientist in general discover/ achieved their greatness before the age of 40. Therefore the Fields Medal is also given to people younger than 40. There's a saying Mathematics is a young men's game. Once you pass 40, rarely you contribute anything significant.
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The mind does not improve as people age. 30-35 is about the peak.
@ the mind did not improve but the output increase in the sense that in few more years he could have publish some more thousands conjecture ( which he think to be true)
@@richardfeynman9341 cap, Euler, Gauss and Erdös created a copious amount of theorems throughout their lifes. Their names can be found in most mathematical fields, where as Ramanujan is limited to a very niche part of number theory and some analysis.
Ah the one near Tidel park. Saw it's construction while i worked near there. I even had the privilege of visiting his ancestral home, it was not far from mine. It was a rather small house in a narrow lone. Kind of typical for a tamil brahmin of modest means at that time.
@@richierich8334 Clearly he could have only known *of* him on the re-telling. In the same way that you or I would learn *of* a dead relative who died before our birth.
@HenryDavidT A lot of good points there, but I think it's not about who was greater and competition. It's just that the amount of knowledge was already so vast that no one could do it all. So, theoretical physics was already very specialized and separate from mathematics. Einstein needed the math and mathematicians get motivated partly by physics (but not just physics). We need them all immensely!
Prof Bollobash had enormous impact on my Doctoral Thesis. He had published a result on 80s in Erdos Reyni random graph showing expected chromatic number. I was working on a particular problem in mobile computing called channel assignment problem, which essentially connected with finding chromatic number of random graph. It's known that this problem is NP hard. Then I saw the result of Prof Bollobash. I immediately took that result and present his work before my Supervisors and later the Head of our Unit. I still remember that our HoU said "Oh my God solving this particular problem (graph coloring) is known to be NP Complete from years, but when randomness is added, people had calculated the chromatic number already." :)
The brains of geniuses often perceive & observe the world differently. To non-mathematicians Ramanujan was barely comprehensible in they way he described the world. It's just not the common, traditional way of looking at the world. Originality is essential in many fields, then millions spend their lives proving & expanding upon these original ideas. This doesn't dismiss the value of those who research those original ideas. It's the necessary next step 2 apply thoughts to our reality. Genius is rare, unique & a gift 2 the world. They deserve our acknowledgments & gratitude.
Two factors made Ramanujan. 1) The Brahmins at the temple of Namakkal, taught him Vaishnav Yoga, that helped him acquire the insight into mathematics (the mind of god) and 2)As a result he got inspired by the Vedic mindset that enabled the discovery of number theory, geometry etc., and infinite series (during the Gupta period). He claimed to have been helped by Vishnu's consort, Namagiri.
What makes Ramanujan special was that it was also barely comprehensible to mathematicians. Hans Bethe once said:" I am an ordinary genius, I do things faster than most people but everything I do and how I do it can be explained. Feynman is a magician, no one understands how he goes from A to B. Von Neuman was not human." Ramanujan possessed an inhuman quality like Mozart. As I said above he had "idiot savant" types of skills. Vision is, when you think about it, an enormous feet of computation power given to us by millions of years of evolution. Our rather slow brain identifies thousands of things at the blink of an eye literally. (Try to program pattern recognition: still AI is far from it). Ramanujan could do with math feats of power similar to what we do with sight. A truly exceptional human.
@@satyasarma1472 You don't understand the word "romantic". Among it's meanings, it is "marked by the imaginative or emotional appeal of what is heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious, or idealized" (Merriam-Webster online dictionary, def 4a). "Romantic" does not imply fiction as sujit mohanty was obviously using the word.
Ramanujan......the most beautiful unorthodox mathematical mind ever existed till now........its amazing that he himself claims that hindu goddess namagiri speaks the maths with him..i mean now its impossible for us to define his genius........on one side his works are already great and on the other he claimed that God himself inspired him to write them.........i feel myself so small between all this story to even imagine the genius of that man......but he died very very early..
Such a great mentor Professor Hardy! World needs more of them. Imagine all the talent in different parts of the world that could flourish with these helping hands.
thanks to the book about him i learned about this great man .trully ,i fell in love with this guy,i read the book so slowly i never wanted it to end.could not read about his illness it made me too sad. such a fine man ,i heard about what his wife said of his last year in life, its amazing. he had so much class.
@@Antim321 thanks i found this book in a second- hand shop.never heard about this man before.i may look it up,but if the book came after the movie i would not.i got the essence of this man from the book i read .i am proud of this man and happy that such people can be among us.
Even the diamond has to be polished to realize it's worth. It is because of Hardy and Littlewood that people all over the world got to see the light that is S Ramanujan.
This was a pleasure to listen to. Thank you for posting. I am reading two of the professor's books: Modern Graph Theory, and Extremal Graph Theory. He is quite eloquent
3:35 :"Nothing could have been better for R. than to come to Cambridge.." That is very much in contradiction to most views. Ramanujan was at last killed by the ignorance of the British about his cultural and nutritional needs. That is the second most important thing to notice about this history.
@Ved .. it is called 'hats off'. Tipping hats or taking hats off is an English tradition when they greet each other. Not 'heads off'. Click the three dots and edit your answer. Think before you write. Think whether it makes sense? it does not make sense even in any Indian language.
I just can't get my head around this amazing man. Divine inspiration, the channeling of knowledge from higher sources, stands as a strong hypothesis to challenge the western materialistic common-sense mainstream view...
@@bigfootpegrande lmfao..do you even know how your subconcious mind works? Dreams are just an expression of your subconsciousness. Once u think of something so deeply, you'll see them in your dreams bc your subconscious minds keep those things in the tabs. The person who discover the structure of Benzene ring also saw it in his dreams, but he didn't attribute them to God/Gods... If you care something and give importance enough, your subscousness will show u in your dream. It's a simple Neurology and Psychology. GO read some more books apart from your religious textbooks/
@@richardfeynman9341 No, I don't. Do you? ...and Neurology (sic) and psychology are NEVER simple, my friend. A user with such a Scientist name should know that. Neuroscience is an untamed land, still and to downplay the inspiration of such a genius as Ramanujan is plain arrogance.
The first time I read about the genius Ramanujan was in 2008 and since then I kept on reading about him every now and then! I am wondering if this video was recorded in 63?!
Ramanujan's amazing yet tragic story always brings great emotions in people. And, when they hear inspiring stories, they are moved. Ramanujan was unique talent and perhaps the most brilliant mind ever but his life's ending was tragic, he would have achieved even more, if he didn't die so young.
Hilbert got 80 points in Hardy's rating, but when Einstein asked Hilbert's assistance with field equations, Hilbert was helpless, then Hilbert asked Noether . i think she should be mentioned in Hardy's list with 90 points, since she was better than Hilbert
India has an ancient tradition of Mathematitians. ( e.g. Varah Mihir, Arya-bhatta, Hem Chandra, Ladies Such as Gargi, Maitreyi etc ); May be thats what inspired him.
nope. He was from a small town in tamil speaking state where nobody knows hindi or about North India. He neither knew nor approached any North Indian mathematician of his time for help. Those who advised him were local and they guided him to Cambridge rather than Delhi or Mumbai.. And there are no books on aryabatta or his work available in ramanujan's state.. so he wouldn't have known much about aryabatta etc anyway
Ramanujan is a religious man. Ramanujan told G.H Hardy that the expression is nothing to him unless it is from god. Which simply means he continued mathematics because god gave knowledge to him about mathematics. Ramanujan also told hardy that all of his ideas was given by his god sometimes in his dream sometimes it is written in his body
@@kartz2010 oh ..u hate brahmins in ur state and say them Aryan and north- Indians but after getting success u claim him Tamil . He made only indian friends in college .
" God was too jealous of his success so he took him away at an early age ".. no education yet can learn everything by himself .. can beat world records of top mathematicians .. Every time I hear about him I always get goosebumps
Yet Ramanujan attrubuted maths to only have meaning to him if it came from God, so this point is kind of moot as God, in Ramanujan's eyes was what gave him that success. How can one be jealous of themselves?
I assume you are Indian and justifiably are proud of Ramanujan. but please, don't forget, there were also Newton, Euler, Gauss, Fourier, Riemann, Poincare, Hilbert and so many more accomplished and intelligent mathematicians.
It's hard to measure intelligence with proficiency in one field. If he was a polymath in other subjects to the same degree, i'd agree. I think he was probably one of the greatest mathematicians alongside jakobi and euler.
Professor, you forgot to mention the phrase which I capitalise here! "Was the smallest number that could be written as the sum of two cubes - IN 2 DIFFERENT WAYS"
whether we like it or not, knowledge comes from india. not only their mathematical knowledge inspired penrose, schroedinger, heisenberg, einstein... etc. but even more did their thoughts inspire western understanding of quantum mechanics ( UPANISHADS ). Respect from IRAN
He found out the secrets of the greeks and pythagoreans philosophers, THEURGY. This is the process of disobjectification, essentially eliminating all that is not the mind and dwelling withing the mind itself he was given visions of unimaginable intelligence.
Nothing. This "Western Education" would've leashed him and put limits to his intellect. Ramanujan used all forms of intelligence, not just the intellect. Victorian education, based solely on the intellect, would've crushed him or even worse, he'd never have blossomed.
How we live is more important than how we go. Ultimately everyone and everything we know will go. That is destiny. We are just witnessing this beauty of creation.
It is not true that he did not ever eat in the Hall (which was the name for the common dining area in Trinity at the time). He did as per the book "The man who knew infinity" by Robert Konnigan. However, he was never sure if he was being served a vegetarian food and due to that fear, he started cooking himself in his rented room. This Professor shouldhave read that book which goes into great detail into Ramanujan's personal life. Ramanujan faced racism, harsh weather, food problems etc in England and that made him a recluse though he was not a recluse by nature.
Ramanujan is not cherished in his hometown or honored by the State Govt of Tamilnadu. Ramanujan should be honored by Govt of India through a holiday for our school children to keep his name alive and inspire children to emulate and try to be a distinguished mathematician like him
The taxi cab number story is truly remarkable, indicative of his being the preeminent genius of all time. BUTTTT!!!! (and please, please forgive me for this "but") the human race as a whole is dozens of Ramanujans away from understanding the very least of the many titanic mysteries that underlie the origin of life. For this reason, ALL OF US, no matter the circumstances that surround us, must be tirelessly vigilant in searching for, pointing out, elevating and praising the next genius of this caliber to appear on our planet. If they were able to find him 100 years ago, surely we have the wherewithal to sift through our numbers and find him again!!!
Newton was only educated in the local schools around his mother's farm before becoming a student at Cambridge. During his years there, he did all his early great work: developed the laws of motion, the law of universal gravitation, and calculus necessary for working with these theories. Similarly, Galois was educated at the normal high schools in the Paris area, but developed his theory of groups and their relation to the solubility of polynomial equations when he was about 21. So Ramanujan was an extreme case, perhaps the most extreme, but many great mathematicians have come from what most would see as unpromising background.
Ramanujan's genius unlike others was not only poverty, but access to math's books. Newton and others didn't have this disadvantage. Newton is my favourtite scientist but in terms of natural talent I think Ramanujan surpasses even the great Newton. Ramanujan's formulas are simply baffling like how he come up those insane formulas. He seems to have different way of solving.
I have read sir Bella's books myself and have immense respect for him, but the funy thing is that how smartly Cambridge's inability of giving srini a good vegetarian meal to nourish himself (causing subsequent death from tb) considering his hindu identity, is being attributed to the so called "caste prejudices". had he been here in India he wouldn't had to go through such malnourishment, ill-treatment from professors and fellow students ( other than hardy, littlewood, mahalaanobish..). He may have learnt many things in Cambridge but his life was more precious that those lessons as far as my opinion is concerned. Today many people try to appropriate his legacy , but at that time Indians were "beastly people with beastly religion" if I were to quote Mr Winston Hitler..
@@timmazumdar7167 I was actually stunned, the same guy who came up with ISI , Planning Commision, the economic model had been with Ramanujan. If India is what it's today in its industrialised form, we owe some credit to him.
its power of self realisation. if you keep on concentrate something.. that something will become your teacher... eventually you transform to something . that what happened to ramanujam .
Definition of natural number: The natural numbers include the positive integers (also known as non-negative integers). In other words, natural numbers are a set of all the whole numbers excluding 0. As a mathematician himself, he used the word which describes positive integer.
@@anjankailash6145 Quoting someone must be as it is. You can't quote someone imposing your own words to it. Like I am quoting you, "In other words, natural numbers are a set of all the whole numbers excluding 0". Well, this statement of yours is subjected to ambiguity based on mathematical point of view. Even the term "whole number" you are using here, have inconsistent definitions (a whole number typically has 3 different definitions). The natural numbers have different definitions depending on the book, sometimes the natural numbers is just the postivite integers, but other times the natural numbers are actually the non-negative numbers ( *including zero* ). The definition you are using partly depends on the country you are studying. "If you want to be completely unambigiuous, you should use the words positive integers and nonnegative integers for these sets."
The man was a century earlier. His formula to explain Black holes was proof 92 years later after his death. Could you imagine if the man didn't died so soon what could he have done for the world.
Ramanujan said he received formulas through revelation frim Goddess. Hardy and Littlewood were these poor guys who took all efforts to prove these truly hard formulas who are direct revelation of Goddess!!!!!
It shows lack of understanding saying that he didn't eat with whole because of caste.He is not eating in the whole because he has a discipline in his life which he got inherited by his caste.
@@Enemji Perhaps I am wrong. I suggested that he was influenced by the religious prohibition of "inter-dining" (eating with people of other religions or castes), but others have suggested that he did not trust that the college cooks were providing him with strictly vegetarian dishes. Was there a militant non-vegetarian among the staff? Menu options were probably reduced during the war. One hundred years later, it will be difficult to tell.
Faithless Hound - True. One of my neighbors till this day packs his food from home, even when he is travelling. It is more about not trusting what is put in the food rather than discrimination.
I am not sure directly but there's a letter that Russell wrote to his mistress at the time, I believe Lady Ottoline Morell, (paraphrasing but pretty close to the actual quote ) that 'I just saw Hardy and Littlewood in a state of wild excitement saying that they had just discovered a second Newton - a poor Indian clerk'.
It was not caste prejudices but a belief that a person who crossed 7 seas would be a bad luck to his/her family, hence traveling to very far away places were forbidden in small pockets of society. Also he didn't eat at the university as he was a vegan and due to his religious beliefs. Off course he says that Ramanujan wouldn't have got such identity in india if not for his two friends in the university, that's because the marauders from peaceful religion and pirates from England had decimated the existing education system in Hindustan to such an extent. Maybe Nalanda, Takshashila universities were figment of our imagination. But anything to malign and show the ancient Hindustan in bad light therby showcasing their ignorance and prejudiced minds.
Hearing Ramanujan's story one has to wonder/ask themselves imagine all the untapped, uneducated kids around the world and how many Ramanujan's might be hiding amongst them. Truly scary, sad, and impressive to think about all at the same thing.
@@benefactor4309 what did he do ? he invented ac current he was the first person who made robotic object first time in the world that worked on radio frequency signal
To the question, whether Ramanujan would have been recognised and celebrated where it not far Hardy; the Prof states 'probably not'. While that is true, it is important to point out, during that time, India was being looted and the Indians were systematically enslaved and were doomed to serve the British. I dare say, if India was free.... Ramunujan would have achieved the same glory and perhaps he would lived longer and contributed more, instead of suffering and getting sick from the miserable cold British weather
British French Indian etc mathematicians of that Era If any mistakes happened unknowingly we have to correct them This is one such mistake in trigo calculus Integrate sinx fffrom 0 to 2pi 0 to 4pi 0 to 6pi 0 to 8pi. Find the mistake Similarly with cosx Find the mistake This happens because the integral formulas have been derived wrongly Instead use diagram method and find out. Hint take the integral from 0 to pi/2 as 1 and multiply it with the number of subdivisions.
When the graph of a function goes below the x-axis, that counts as negative area. So the integral of sinx over a period is 0. If you want to instead count it as positive area you need to integrate |sinx|, the absolute value of sinx. The integral of that from 0 to 2pi is 4, since we just multiply by 4 the integral of sinx from 0 to pi/2 (which is 1). Take your schizo meds.
Prof. Hardy is a real unsung hero in the story of Ramanujan! During the British Raj, much of Indian talent was despised and discouraged in India by the powers that were, and still Ramanujan was able to rise above all these hurdles put in his path. We must have a statue of Hardy and Ramanujan together somewhere to commemorate that wonderful and real partnership between two extraordinary individuals.
Not really. R. Did not like Hardy. There are others.
Not unsung at all. You can't mention Ramanujan without mentioning Hardy.
@@ayushkhanna8126 the real 'unsung heros" of R.. events in England were 1 professor(whom I knew) Mordell USA and 2 professor Littlewood. R..., liking Mordells easy breezy style gave him clues to theorems for F.L.T.🤐 why not put 4 statues, Tushar. I think professor Hardy was way too 'provincial'.
Great idea, include littlewood as well.
@@robertflynn6686 Sure. We have no problem celebrating all of them. Great minds, in spite of their internal politics are worthy of respect.
Still to this date, I get goosebumps thinking just how much more he could have revolutionized the world of mathematics, if he had lived a few more years.
evariste Galoi is more genius I feel like. And died at such a young age for a stupid reason
Even Ramanujan was subject to the savage racism of the English. This has also doomed British corporations. But America saw profitability as the single goal. Like India, English are still suffering because of their own Caste systems. And it appears to be getting worse.
@@kiritibhattacharya2772England doesn’t have a caste system ??
Yes, same goes for Galois, who died a pointless death.
he would have solved math by now. prime number formula, rieman zeta etc.
Ramanujan is a historical peer of great minds like Mozart and Einstein. He should be better known to (and revered by) the general public.
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@@richierich8334 Mozart composed at 5 what 50 years could not do
Richie Rich That is simply not true. His compositions at a young age has shown a decent level of maturity. You could also see from his manuscripts that music came naturally to him
@@richierich8334 you Salieri fan
@@seanseow1499 Not true?? So Mozart lied about his entire childhood then did he?? Or is it you knew him personally and refute what he told you??
The dude understood the most complex of subjects on his own and actually had acquired more advanced knowledge the collective history of mathematics took centuries to do
Just imagine what a great unique mind like Ramanujan could have achieved if he had lived another 50 years.
not really...bc, most of the mathematicians or scientist in general discover/ achieved their greatness before the age of 40. Therefore the Fields Medal is also given to people younger than 40. There's a saying Mathematics is a young men's game. Once you pass 40, rarely you contribute anything significant.
The mind does not improve as people age. 30-35 is about the peak.
@ the mind did not improve but the output increase in the sense that in few more years he could have publish some more thousands conjecture ( which he think to be true)
@@richardfeynman9341 Ramanujan is unique ,believe me ,we would have reached stars if he had lived his full life
@@richardfeynman9341 cap, Euler, Gauss and Erdös created a copious amount of theorems throughout their lifes. Their names can be found in most mathematical fields, where as Ramanujan is limited to a very niche part of number theory and some analysis.
One minute silence for Ramanujan, Hardy and Littlewood. Great souls.😔
In Chennai there is a IT building named after him called Ramanujum IT City, it gave me goose bumps when I went there many years ago.
Ah the one near Tidel park. Saw it's construction while i worked near there. I even had the privilege of visiting his ancestral home, it was not far from mine. It was a rather small house in a narrow lone. Kind of typical for a tamil brahmin of modest means at that time.
What beautiful handwriting Ramanujan had and what a sense of proportion for arranging material on a page - it says ‘trustworthy’!
Yes, those hand written fine lines reflects his integrity and ingenuity on the papers and prints profoundly his great passion to Mathematics.
Ramanujan never dies. Ramanujan lives for infinity.
How lovely to watch Prof. Bollobás speak with such tenderness about someone he knew so little.
It is wonderful and very touching.
@@richierich8334
Clearly he could have only known *of* him on the re-telling. In the same way that you or I would learn *of* a dead relative who died before our birth.
@@richierich8334 Valid point .. this must surely prove that Prof Bollobas knew everything about Ramanujam very very well.
That's humility of great people
"An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God" - Srinivasa Ramanujan!
This is such a powerful and esoteric statement.
Did he say that... Amazing!
"Hardy ranked 'natural talent' in mathematicians: Hardy 25, Littlewood 30, Hilbert 80, Ramanujan 100." Wow! That's not even on the same scale!
RezaRob3 and that’s a log scale 🙂
How about John von Neumann?
@HenryDavidT A lot of good points there, but I think it's not about who was greater and competition. It's just that the amount of knowledge was already so vast that no one could do it all. So, theoretical physics was already very specialized and separate from mathematics. Einstein needed the math and mathematicians get motivated partly by physics (but not just physics). We need them all immensely!
@@Straight_Talk he is better known as god of computer architecture
@@subhabratabasu9804 von Neumann was also the greatest mathematician of the 20th Century.
When I hear Ramanujan i feel very energetic
The person who came out of rules never asks questions. But any person who comes up by himself will be full of questions.
woah deep!
Thoughtful!
@Andris Falks my theory is same, he was definitely killed.
Prof Bollobash had enormous impact on my Doctoral Thesis. He had published a result on 80s in Erdos Reyni random graph showing expected chromatic number. I was working on a particular problem in mobile computing called channel assignment problem, which essentially connected with finding chromatic number of random graph. It's known that this problem is NP hard. Then I saw the result of Prof Bollobash. I immediately took that result and present his work before my Supervisors and later the Head of our Unit. I still remember that our HoU said "Oh my God solving this particular problem (graph coloring) is known to be NP Complete from years, but when randomness is added, people had calculated the chromatic number already." :)
The brains of geniuses often perceive & observe the world differently. To non-mathematicians Ramanujan was barely comprehensible in they way he described the world. It's just not the common, traditional way of looking at the world. Originality is essential in many fields, then millions spend their lives proving & expanding upon these original ideas. This doesn't dismiss the value of those who research those original ideas. It's the necessary next step 2 apply thoughts to our reality. Genius is rare, unique & a gift 2 the world. They deserve our acknowledgments & gratitude.
gematria79 are you German?
Two factors made Ramanujan. 1) The Brahmins at the temple of Namakkal, taught him Vaishnav Yoga, that helped him acquire the insight into mathematics (the mind of god) and 2)As a result he got inspired by the Vedic mindset that enabled the discovery of number theory, geometry etc., and infinite series (during the Gupta period).
He claimed to have been helped by Vishnu's consort, Namagiri.
What makes Ramanujan special was that it was also barely comprehensible to mathematicians. Hans Bethe once said:" I am an ordinary genius, I do things faster than most people but everything I do and how I do it can be explained. Feynman is a magician, no one understands how he goes from A to B. Von Neuman was not human."
Ramanujan possessed an inhuman quality like Mozart. As I said above he had "idiot savant" types of skills. Vision is, when you think about it, an enormous feet of computation power given to us by millions of years of evolution. Our rather slow brain identifies thousands of things at the blink of an eye literally. (Try to program pattern recognition: still AI is far from it). Ramanujan could do with math feats of power similar to what we do with sight.
A truly exceptional human.
You are correct , .
@@jceepf Where did you get the Hans Bethe quote? (and thanks)
Very human retelling of the story. Bollobas is also one of the best lecturers in Cambridge.
Very interesting, brilliant minds.
This is still a romantic story in academics....
@@satyasarma1472 Why can't romance and reality exist together? Some romantic stories are true and some true stories are romantic.
@@satyasarma1472 You don't understand the word "romantic". Among it's meanings, it is "marked by the imaginative or emotional appeal of what is heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious, or idealized" (Merriam-Webster online dictionary, def 4a). "Romantic" does not imply fiction as sujit mohanty was obviously using the word.
Satya Sarma it’s not that roman in Slavic languages...
Ramanujan......the most beautiful unorthodox mathematical mind ever existed till now........its amazing that he himself claims that hindu goddess namagiri speaks the maths with him..i mean now its impossible for us to define his genius........on one side his works are already great and on the other he claimed that God himself inspired him to write them.........i feel myself so small between all this story to even imagine the genius of that man......but he died very very early..
We will always remember The Great Genius Mathematician of India.
We?
Such a great mentor Professor Hardy! World needs more of them. Imagine all the talent in different parts of the world that could flourish with these helping hands.
thanks to the book about him i learned about this great man .trully ,i fell in love with this guy,i read the book so slowly i never wanted it to end.could not read about his illness it made me too sad. such a fine man ,i heard about what his wife said of his last year in life, its amazing. he had so much class.
@@Antim321 The Indian Clerk
Novel by David Leavitt
@@Antim321 i think its the name of the movie,not a book.the movie is good and i saw it after reading the book
@@Antim321 thanks i found this book in a second- hand shop.never heard about this man before.i may look it up,but if the book came after the movie i would not.i got the essence of this man from the book i read .i am proud of this man and happy that such people can be among us.
Great engaging talk by Professor Bollobás.
the most beautiful and honest interview ever on Ramanujan
Even the diamond has to be polished to realize it's worth. It is because of Hardy and Littlewood that people all over the world got to see the light that is S Ramanujan.
This was a pleasure to listen to. Thank you for posting. I am reading two of the professor's books: Modern Graph Theory, and Extremal Graph Theory. He is quite eloquent
3:35 :"Nothing could have been better for R. than to come to Cambridge.."
That is very much in contradiction to most views. Ramanujan was at last killed by the ignorance of the British about his cultural and nutritional needs. That is the second most important thing to notice about this history.
Very interesting and worthwhile video on Ramanujan.
He was brilliant......sir hats off to ramanujan
Ved Yadav that’s very violent of you
@Ved .. it is called 'hats off'. Tipping hats or taking hats off is an English tradition when they greet each other. Not 'heads off'. Click the three dots and edit your answer. Think before you write. Think whether it makes sense? it does not make sense even in any Indian language.
Idiot bihari "hats off" not" heads off".
😂😂😂
Heads off has a kind of dark comic aspect to it though. I don't entirely object.
This is one of the finest on the web
I just can't get my head around this amazing man. Divine inspiration, the channeling of knowledge from higher sources, stands as a strong hypothesis to challenge the western materialistic common-sense mainstream view...
Antithesis
@@vector8310 Thanks!
@@bigfootpegrande lmfao..do you even know how your subconcious mind works? Dreams are just an expression of your subconsciousness. Once u think of something so deeply, you'll see them in your dreams bc your subconscious minds keep those things in the tabs. The person who discover the structure of Benzene ring also saw it in his dreams, but he didn't attribute them to God/Gods...
If you care something and give importance enough, your subscousness will show u in your dream. It's a simple Neurology and Psychology. GO read some more books apart from your religious textbooks/
@@richardfeynman9341 No, I don't. Do you? ...and Neurology (sic) and psychology are NEVER simple, my friend. A user with such a Scientist name should know that. Neuroscience is an untamed land, still and to downplay the inspiration of such a genius as Ramanujan is plain arrogance.
The first time I read about the genius Ramanujan was in 2008 and since then I kept on reading about him every now and then! I am wondering if this video was recorded in 63?!
Ramanujan's amazing yet tragic story always brings great emotions in people. And, when they hear inspiring stories, they are moved. Ramanujan was unique talent and perhaps the most brilliant mind ever but his life's ending was tragic, he would have achieved even more, if he didn't die so young.
Goes to show how education and passion dilutes boundaries and customs. Truely inspiring story. God bless humanity 🎉
This speaks volumes about the power of un-interrupted an, socially un-influenced intuition.
Everytime I hear about the story of Ramanujan, I feel like crying... because the world lost one of its brightest mind too early, way too early
It seems it is a fact that ramanujan and his works will still lead to more research.
He is actually a second Indian to be the fellow of the Royal Society, the first was a Shipbuilding Engineer, Wadiyar.
Hilbert got 80 points in Hardy's rating, but when Einstein asked Hilbert's assistance with field equations, Hilbert was helpless, then Hilbert asked Noether . i think she should be mentioned in Hardy's list with 90 points, since she was better than Hilbert
India has an ancient tradition of Mathematitians. ( e.g. Varah Mihir, Arya-bhatta, Hem Chandra, Ladies Such as Gargi, Maitreyi etc ); May be thats what inspired him.
nope. He was from a small town in tamil speaking state where nobody knows hindi or about North India. He neither knew nor approached any North Indian mathematician of his time for help. Those who advised him were local and they guided him to Cambridge rather than Delhi or Mumbai.. And there are no books on aryabatta or his work available in ramanujan's state.. so he wouldn't have known much about aryabatta etc anyway
Wow!!! I also want to know the recent Indian mathematics.. do u have any name as well ?🤔🤔
Wow!!! I also want to know the recent Indian mathematics.. do u have any name as well ?🤔🤔
Ramanujan is a religious man. Ramanujan told G.H Hardy that the expression is nothing to him unless it is from god. Which simply means he continued mathematics because god gave knowledge to him about mathematics. Ramanujan also told hardy that all of his ideas was given by his god sometimes in his dream sometimes it is written in his body
@@kartz2010 oh ..u hate brahmins in ur state and say them Aryan and north- Indians but after getting success u claim him Tamil . He made only indian friends in college .
Such documents about history are a great treasure and present. Thank you so much..
The world will talk about
Ramanujam even after 10000000 years ......and hopefully they will be able to solve his mathematics soon .........
" God was too jealous of his success so he took him away at an early age ".. no education yet can learn everything by himself .. can beat world records of top mathematicians ..
Every time I hear about him I always get goosebumps
Yet Ramanujan attrubuted maths to only have meaning to him if it came from God, so this point is kind of moot as God, in Ramanujan's eyes was what gave him that success. How can one be jealous of themselves?
Don't be stupid
Leaving Ramanujan aside for a moment, I see pure wisdom talking...
Hardy, Little wood and Ramanujan, a Trinity that laid path for the scientific future of the World! Most relevant! Rarest Genius remains Ramanujam!
THE GREATEST MATHEMATICIAN AND THE MOST INTELLIGENT MAN OF ALL TIME...SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN
I assume you are Indian and justifiably are proud of Ramanujan. but please, don't forget, there were also Newton, Euler, Gauss, Fourier, Riemann, Poincare, Hilbert and so many more accomplished and intelligent mathematicians.
i wouldnt call him the greatest but they is a true genius
@david edbrooke-coffin no., he is right
It's hard to measure intelligence with proficiency in one field. If he was a polymath in other subjects to the same degree, i'd agree. I think he was probably one of the greatest mathematicians alongside jakobi and euler.
@@ashotdjrbashian9606 Yes Euler was great but not smarter than Ramanujan
It explains a lot. Thanks
Ramanujan, Da vinci, Mozart, Einstein etc are some interesting and brilliant figures in History that should be celebrated.
@ kitchen
The man who knew the infinity. Sir Ramanujan is the Indian God of Mathematics.
Professor, you forgot to mention the phrase which I capitalise here!
"Was the smallest number that could be written as the sum of two cubes - IN 2 DIFFERENT WAYS"
Thanks; I was wondering if the coronavirus phobia had eroded my brain
Ramanujan sir is the greatest mathematician of all times..
whether we like it or not, knowledge comes from india. not only their mathematical knowledge inspired penrose, schroedinger, heisenberg, einstein... etc. but even more did their thoughts inspire western understanding of quantum mechanics ( UPANISHADS ).
Respect from IRAN
He found out the secrets of the greeks and pythagoreans philosophers, THEURGY. This is the process of disobjectification, essentially eliminating all that is not the mind and dwelling withing the mind itself he was given visions of unimaginable intelligence.
wow! very engaging conversation. The interviewer was also great in this discussion. He never interrupted Prof. Bollabas.
Aryavarta has produced Math from 0 to infinity.When my colonist the Romans marched into Briton they had square wheels, they had no idea of math.
Imagine how much he could have achieved, if he received proper education and lived a long and healthy life....
Nothing. This "Western Education" would've leashed him and put limits to his intellect. Ramanujan used all forms of intelligence, not just the intellect. Victorian education, based solely on the intellect, would've crushed him or even worse, he'd never have blossomed.
A genius cannot be contained!
God bless G.H. Hardy
Ironically Hardy was a staunch atheist-who committed suicide in the end.
@@DrVKParmar suicide? Why?
How we live is more important than how we go. Ultimately everyone and everything we know will go. That is destiny. We are just witnessing this beauty of creation.
@@DrVKParmar I don't think so. He attempted suicide at one time but died of other causes (I don't know what the cause of death was).
@@DrVKParmar it's not correct
It is not true that he did not ever eat in the Hall (which was the name for the common dining area in Trinity at the time). He did as per the book "The man who knew infinity" by Robert Konnigan. However, he was never sure if he was being served a vegetarian food and due to that fear, he started cooking himself in his rented room. This Professor shouldhave read that book which goes into great detail into Ramanujan's personal life. Ramanujan faced racism, harsh weather, food problems etc in England and that made him a recluse though he was not a recluse by nature.
He did face racism.Watch the video from 11:00 to 11:10
That's how we lost a genius.
7:41 forgot to mention P.C. Mahalanobis
Ramanujan is not cherished in his hometown or honored by the State Govt of Tamilnadu. Ramanujan should be honored by Govt of India through a holiday for our school children to keep his name alive and inspire children to emulate and try to be a distinguished mathematician like him
DMK supporters will hate Ramanujan
The taxi cab number story is truly remarkable, indicative of his being the preeminent genius of all time. BUTTTT!!!! (and please, please forgive me for this "but") the human race as a whole is dozens of Ramanujans away from understanding the very least of the many titanic mysteries that underlie the origin of life. For this reason, ALL OF US, no matter the circumstances that surround us, must be tirelessly vigilant in searching for, pointing out, elevating and praising the next genius of this caliber to appear on our planet. If they were able to find him 100 years ago, surely we have the wherewithal to sift through our numbers and find him again!!!
Tell us all what great books of g.h. Hardy you've read cover to cover.
Newton was only educated in the local schools around his mother's farm before becoming a student at Cambridge. During his years there, he did all his early great work: developed the laws of motion, the law of universal gravitation, and calculus necessary for working with these theories. Similarly, Galois was educated at the normal high schools in the Paris area, but developed his theory of groups and their relation to the solubility of polynomial equations when he was about 21. So Ramanujan was an extreme case, perhaps the most extreme, but many great mathematicians have come from what most would see as unpromising background.
Ramanujan's genius unlike others was not only poverty, but access to math's books. Newton and others didn't have this disadvantage. Newton is my favourtite scientist but in terms of natural talent I think Ramanujan surpasses even the great Newton. Ramanujan's formulas are simply baffling like how he come up those insane formulas. He seems to have different way of solving.
Ramanujan had direct access to the Akashic record, the source of all knowledge, past present and future,
@Nostalgia For Infinity and just where do you all geniuses draw their inspiration from?
@Nostalgia For Infinity Facepalm!
Thanks a lot.
I have read sir Bella's books myself and have immense respect for him, but the funy thing is that how smartly Cambridge's inability of giving srini a good vegetarian meal to nourish himself (causing subsequent death from tb) considering his hindu identity, is being attributed to the so called "caste prejudices". had he been here in India he wouldn't had to go through such malnourishment, ill-treatment from professors and fellow students ( other than hardy, littlewood, mahalaanobish..). He may have learnt many things in Cambridge but his life was more precious that those lessons as far as my opinion is concerned. Today many people try to appropriate his legacy , but at that time Indians were "beastly people with beastly religion" if I were to quote Mr Winston Hitler..
Its Mahalanobis please correct your spelling.
@@timmazumdar7167 I was actually stunned, the same guy who came up with ISI , Planning Commision, the economic model had been with Ramanujan. If India is what it's today in its industrialised form, we owe some credit to him.
ramanujan really has that public transport fighter face
its power of self realisation. if you keep on concentrate something.. that something will become your teacher... eventually you transform to something . that what happened to ramanujam .
Very likely the most intelligent human being of all time
This is very good. What does the 1963 refer to?
"Sprang fully armed like Pallas Athena". WOW!!!
5:40 Amazing
Sir ...So actually he became the great by solving problems from that book.
He's born in 1943, not in 1963.
What is the significance of '1963' in this title?
The year professor Bollobas spent an undergraduate year at Cambridge.
It's not natural numbers. Littlewood said, "Every Positive integer are Ramanujan's best friend"
Definition of natural number: The natural numbers include the positive integers (also known as non-negative integers). In other words, natural numbers are a set of all the whole numbers excluding 0.
As a mathematician himself, he used the word which describes positive integer.
@@anjankailash6145 Quoting someone must be as it is. You can't quote someone imposing your own words to it.
Like I am quoting you, "In other words, natural numbers are a set of all the whole numbers excluding 0".
Well, this statement of yours is subjected to ambiguity based on mathematical point of view. Even the term "whole number" you are using here, have inconsistent definitions (a whole number typically has 3 different definitions). The natural numbers have different definitions depending on the book, sometimes the natural numbers is just the postivite integers, but other times the natural numbers are actually the non-negative numbers ( *including zero* ). The definition you are using partly depends on the country you are studying.
"If you want to be completely unambigiuous, you should use the words positive integers and nonnegative integers for these sets."
The man was a century earlier. His formula to explain Black holes was proof 92 years later after his death. Could you imagine if the man didn't died so soon what could he have done for the world.
Paul Erdos wow my favorite uncle of uncertainty wow great
Ramanujam didn't eat in hall because he is a vegetarian and there is no vegetarian food served in the mess. Not everything has to do with caste.
Blaming caste takes the blame away..
Ramanujan said he received formulas through revelation frim Goddess.
Hardy and Littlewood were these poor guys who took all efforts to prove these truly hard formulas who are direct revelation of Goddess!!!!!
actually he read star only later..his first exposure was to Loney..
It shows lack of understanding saying that he didn't eat with whole because of caste.He is not eating in the whole because he has a discipline in his life which he got inherited by his caste.
Hall, not whole 😂
He could not dine in Hall with the others because he had been brought up not to "interdine" (as Indians used to say).
Faithless Hound - what?
@@Enemji
Perhaps I am wrong. I suggested that he was influenced by the religious prohibition of "inter-dining" (eating with people of other religions or castes), but others have suggested that he did not trust that the college cooks were providing him with strictly vegetarian dishes. Was there a militant non-vegetarian among the staff? Menu options were probably reduced during the war. One hundred years later, it will be difficult to tell.
Faithless Hound - True. One of my neighbors till this day packs his food from home, even when he is travelling. It is more about not trusting what is put in the food rather than discrimination.
Did Bertrand Russell have any contact to Ramannujan ?
@rf4life Thanks
I am not sure directly but there's a letter that Russell wrote to his mistress at the time, I believe Lady Ottoline Morell, (paraphrasing but pretty close to the actual quote ) that 'I just saw Hardy and Littlewood in a state of wild excitement saying that they had just discovered a second Newton - a poor Indian clerk'.
thanks to Hardy and Little-wood for making his works known to the world
It was not caste prejudices but a belief that a person who crossed 7 seas would be a bad luck to his/her family, hence traveling to very far away places were forbidden in small pockets of society. Also he didn't eat at the university as he was a vegan and due to his religious beliefs. Off course he says that Ramanujan wouldn't have got such identity in india if not for his two friends in the university, that's because the marauders from peaceful religion and pirates from England had decimated the existing education system in Hindustan to such an extent. Maybe Nalanda, Takshashila universities were figment of our imagination.
But anything to malign and show the ancient Hindustan in bad light therby showcasing their ignorance and prejudiced minds.
So Newton wasn't much of a figure in maths?
7:34 activate subtitles ;)
God of mathematics !!
The 2 biopics on Ramanuja (1 starring Dev Patel+Jersmy Irons) do not do justice to Ramanujan-whose spirituality played a major part in his life.
6:00 kinda starts sounding like knowing all the power levels of characters in DBZ
We can see infinity in his eye
The great man has probably united with his source aka the great MA
Hearing Ramanujan's story one has to wonder/ask themselves imagine all the untapped, uneducated kids around the world and how many Ramanujan's might be hiding amongst them. Truly scary, sad, and impressive to think about all at the same thing.
Maybe Nikola tesla also a differently gifted as Ramanujan for mathematics
Tesla is the most over ratted man
What did he do ?
@@benefactor4309 Tesla invented electricity, the kind you use everyday. Unless you live in a car.
@@benefactor4309 what did he do ? he invented ac current he was the first person who made robotic object first time in the world that worked on radio frequency signal
@@jamesb9499 Tesla did not invent electrivity.
@@Nk-lu2ei Tesla did not invent ac current. He was not the first one to work on remote control. Curb your ignorance.
To the question, whether Ramanujan would have been recognised and celebrated where it not far Hardy; the Prof states 'probably not'. While that is true, it is important to point out, during that time, India was being looted and the Indians were systematically enslaved and were doomed to serve the British. I dare say, if India was free.... Ramunujan would have achieved the same glory and perhaps he would lived longer and contributed more, instead of suffering and getting sick from the miserable cold British weather
Another figure who throws a wrench in conventional theories of 'intelligence'.
Is the theory of Namagiri is real though?? 🤔
In my eyes, Ramanujan is the greatest of all time. जय श्री रामानुजन
approved.
I thought I was the only one who repeat sentences two or three times while speaking but foreigners also fumble.
really? i thought he was very eloquent..and what do you mean foreigners also fumble? Like they're aliens or something.
@@vetiarvind No foreigner are not aliens 😂. I meant to say that Foreigners also fumble when they speak English.
@@pritpalsinghh it seems English isn't his first language.
He is a Hungarian
British French Indian etc mathematicians of that Era
If any mistakes happened unknowingly we have to correct them
This is one such mistake in trigo calculus
Integrate sinx fffrom 0 to 2pi 0 to 4pi 0 to 6pi 0 to 8pi.
Find the mistake
Similarly with cosx
Find the mistake
This happens because the integral formulas have been derived wrongly
Instead use diagram method and find out.
Hint take the integral from 0 to pi/2 as 1
and multiply it with the number of subdivisions.
When the graph of a function goes below the x-axis, that counts as negative area. So the integral of sinx over a period is 0. If you want to instead count it as positive area you need to integrate |sinx|, the absolute value of sinx. The integral of that from 0 to 2pi is 4, since we just multiply by 4 the integral of sinx from 0 to pi/2 (which is 1).
Take your schizo meds.
Ramanujan = A guy named John who loved Ramen noodles so much he changed his name...?