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The report for The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

During this period, Ramanujan made several significant mathematical discoveries, including: the man who knew infinity index

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  • Aesthetics of mathematics (page 98)
  • The "Hardy-Ramanujan number" 1729 (page 13) – one of the most famous anecdotes in mathematics.
  • Hardy’s rating system for mathematicians (page 234) – where he famously gave himself a 25, Littlewood a 30, and Ramanujan a 100.
  • The "Hardy-Ramanujan Unordered Partition Formula"