FAQ About Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan
4 days ago | beth

What was the collaboration between Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy like?

The collaboration between G.H. Hardy and Ramanujan was highly productive and groundbreaking. Hardy admired Ramanujan's originality and intuition in mathematics, although their approaches were very different—Hardy being more formal and Ramanujan relying on intuition and instinct. Together, they published several important papers and introduced numerous new concepts in number theory. Hardy considered Ramanujan one of the greatest mathematicians of his time.