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Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Man Who Knew Infinity

Imagine a young man in colonial India, working as a low-paid clerk, teaching himself math with old textbooks and scraps of paper. He’s barely got any formal education, but he’s dreaming up equations nobody’s ever seen before. That’s Srinivasa Ramanujan—someone who said a goddess whispered math secrets to him in his sleep.

Ramanujan wrote a letter to G.H. Hardy at Cambridge, crammed with wild theorems that looked impossible. Hardy took one look and knew he wasn’t dealing with an ordinary mathematician. So Ramanujan packed his bags and sailed to England, right as World War I broke out. Life there hit him hard. He battled loneliness, illness, and professors who couldn’t believe some outsider from India could come up with breakthroughs they’d never imagined.

But Ramanujan didn’t back down. He dove into infinite series, mock theta functions, and the mysteries of pi. His work shook up mathematics and opened doors to ideas still echoing today.

Even as his health failed and he lay dying at just 32, Ramanujan kept scribbling down formulas that baffle experts now. His story is tragic, brilliant, and honestly, kind of awe-inspiring—a guy who seemed to see the universe’s hidden patterns.

This video digs into:

The letter that made Hardy realize he’d found a true genius.
Ramanujan’s wild intuition: how he just “knew” math, no formal training needed.
The unlikely partnership between Ramanujan and Hardy—one for the history books.
Ramanujan’s legacy: why his “lost notebook” still matters, even in black hole physics.

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