a poet, scholar, professor, a philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright

Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, professor, a philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright.

one of the world's great mathematicians

Ramanujan was one of the world's great mathematicians.

the most fa-mous of modern Indian mathematicians

Ramanujan (1887–1920) is perhaps the most fa-mous of modern Indian mathematicians.

a mathematician whose story occupies the mythic space between extremes—faith and rationale, intuition and proof, tradition and modernity

Ramanujan is a mathematician whose story occupies the mythic space between extremes—faith and rationale, intuition and proof, tradition and modernity.

an Indian mathematician who continues to fascinate me endlessly

Ramanujan is an Indian mathematician who continues to fascinate me endlessly.

a self-taught mathematician working as a clerk in a post office in India when Ramanujan wrote to Hardy at the University of Cambridge

Ramanujan was a self-taught mathematician working as a clerk in a post office in India when Ramanujan wrote to Hardy at the University of Cambridge.

an Indian mathematician who came up with many unproven conjectures, most of which were validated long after Ramanujan's death

Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician who came up with many unproven conjectures, most of which were validated long after Ramanujan's death.

a prodigious Indian mathematician who, despite having no formal training in advanced mathematical concepts, mastered trigonometry at the age of 12 and went on to make great contributions to mathematical concepts such as number theory, infinite series and continued fractions

Ramanujan was a prodigious Indian mathematician who, despite having no formal training in advanced mathematical concepts, mastered trigonometry at the age of 12 and went on to make great contributions to mathematical concepts such as number theory, infinite series and continued fractions.

A self-taught Indian mathematician from the city

A self-taught Indian mathematician from the city then called Madras (now Chennai), Ramanujan struggled to overcome racism, poverty, and outsider status in imperial Britain during the tumultuous time of World War I.

a poet, scholar, a philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright

Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, a philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright.

a self-taught mathematician from India who is famous for Ramanujan's contributions to continued fractions, infinite series, number theory, and mathematical analysis

Ramanujan was a self-taught mathematician from India who is famous for Ramanujan's contributions to continued fractions, infinite series, number theory, and mathematical analysis.

an Indian mathematician who became famous for Koteswara Rao Garu's intuition for numbers

S. Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician who became famous for Koteswara Rao Garu's intuition for numbers.

an Indian mathematician who became famous for S. Ramanujan's intuition for numbers

S. Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician who became famous for S. Ramanujan's intuition for numbers.

a self-taught Indian mathematician who was born into poverty

Ramanujan was a self-taught Indian mathematician who was born into poverty.

a genius who conjectured and made giant leaps of imagination

Ramanujan was a genius who conjectured and made giant leaps of imagination; as a seasoned mathematician, Hardy put emphasis on rigor and proceeded by logical step-by-step reasoning.

an Indian mathematician who didn’t have a teacher and Ramanujan derived all of calculus by himself

Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician who didn’t have a teacher and Ramanujan derived all of calculus by himself.

a self-taught autodidaticMathematician- () born and died in Madras Presidency

Ramanujan was a self-taught (autodidatic) Mathematician- born and died in Madras Presidency.

a self-taught Indian prodigy

Ramanujan was a self-taught Indian prodigy who in a few years before Ramanujan's premature death produced arguably the most astonishing output in the history of pure mathematics.

a meteor in the mathematics world of the World War I era

Ramanujan was a meteor in the mathematics world of the World War I era.