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Few mathematicians have captured the public imagination like Srinivasa Ramanujan. Born in a small village in Tamil Nadu, he produced thousands of theorems, many of them without proof, yet almost all later shown to be correct. His life—a trajectory from near-obscurity and poverty to fellowship at Cambridge University, followed by early death at 32—has become a modern parable of untutored genius. Robert Kanigel’s The Man Who Knew Infinity (1991) remains the definitive biographical treatment, avoiding hagiography while illuminating the psychological, social, and intellectual forces that shaped Ramanujan’s work.

Ramanujan’s work spans several fields, but three areas stand out as revolutionary: the guy who knew infinity