Srinivasa Ramanujan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.
-- Srinivasa Ramanujan

#Mean #Equations
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 Ramanujan

#Food #Science #Brain
No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.
-- Srinivasa Ramanujan

#Science #Two #Numbers
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.
-- Srinivasa Ramanujan

#Writing #Numbers #Blood

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.
The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result.
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.
Love is an equation, a me and a you derives a we.
An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.

Srinivasa Ramanujan famous quotes

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