Srinivasa Ramanujan quotes
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“An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.”
-- Srinivasa RamanujanSource : "The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould" by Jacob Aron, www.newscientist.com. April 08, 2016.
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“To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful to me here to get a scholarship...”
-- Srinivasa RamanujanSource : Srinivasa Ramanujan (2015). “Collected Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan”, p.15, Cambridge University Press
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“No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.”
-- Srinivasa RamanujanSource : Quoted in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 26 May 1921
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“While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing.”
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“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”
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Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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Source : Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.67, A&C Black
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Source : James Clerk Maxwell (2002). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:”, p.518, Cambridge University Press
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“It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.”
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“An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.”
Source : "The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould" by Jacob Aron, www.newscientist.com. April 08, 2016.
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