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Ramanujan
Episode 125

Ramanujan

Learn more about the legendary mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More

November 8, 20209m 55s

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Show Notes

In 1913, a young man from the city of Madras in British India sent a letter to one of the world’s preeminent mathematicians, G.H. Hardy, in Cambridge Univerisity in England. The young man had no formal education in advanced mathematics, yet that letter would end up changing the landscape of mathematics for the rest of the 20th century. Learn more about the legendary Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the world’s most gifted natural mathematicians, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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