Learn Mathematics Like Ramanujan Did

He left this world way too early. Imagine what he'd accomplish if he had more time.

Ramanujan is one of the greatest mathematians of all time.

He was poor deprived of nutrition, no money to buy books and paper to practice. Still his brain worked as max capacity or even more to understand, compute and interpret those equation. Yes astounding. Also for the fact he lived only for 32 years and made such a significant impact. Imagine what would have happened if he lived till 70 years. Ramanjan, Bodhi dharman, Jagadish Chandra bose, CV Raman are the sages among few Bharat has produced.

"The Man Who Knew Infinity" was great. I'd encourage anyone who is interested in mathematics - a group which presumably includes pretty much anybody watching Math Sorcerer videos - to watch it. It's very moving and very inspirational, IMO.

As a mathematician (PhD) myself, I’ve always been fascinated with Ramanujan since I was child. He was an exceptionally profound human being and it’s one of the greatest tragedies that he died at such a young age. I always ask myself what else could he had achieved with a long life.

Great book. Great video. I’m so glad you emphasized the superhuman effort Ramanujan made to learn mathematics. He did pour his WHOLE life into math. My mind boggles at the depth of his intellect and his contribution to math. Thanks for bringing that forward. I would enjoy a review of a book that chronicles and/or catalogues his insights. It would be fascinating learn some of the pathways he took to results. Thank you for caring and teaching.

Thank you for continuing to produce these videos! You are an inspiration to many, myself included.

I have the two-volume hardcover edition in my private math library! Thank you, MS, for doing a video about this classic work that awakened the genius of one of my math heroes, Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920)!!

Ramanujan was such a rock star legendary mathematician. The way he saw mathematics was as if he could see the Matrix (pun very much intended!😁). It's such a tragic story about his life being cut so short. Imagine what he could have achieved if he had lived to old age.

I almost cried when I saw Archimedes quote in the begining of the video and it gives me memories when I first fell in love with math.❤ Ramanujan is one of my idols.

Working my way thorugh a multiple variable calculus course, I have no idea what most of your videos mean, but just the passion you talk about it is contagious and it keeps me going . Thanks Sorcerer!

While Ramanujan did study a lot from one this book, another book from which he studied was a trigonometry book by SL Loney. He was able to solve very complex trigonometry by the age of 13 with its help. Would love to see you review that! I think he also had one or two more books that he could get access to (it is pretty hard to find the names as everyone just says this book). He was a genius nevertheless, a true bright mathematician. Also, paper was very scarce for him. He wrote with chalk on the floor of temples and only wrote the final and most important results on paper(to mail it to other people. Like he did to Hardy). This is probably why he didn't care about writing proofs. Even when he was in Cambridge, it was very difficult to find paper due to world war 1 (that is what I heard from someone. Not really sure but seems probable)and this might be one of the reasons why we don't really know what all he discovered. We have his notebooks but it only included the really selected ones with little proofs. Imagine if we were able to access all of his works.

One of my favourite mathematicians. Thanks for sharing this incredible book.

The difference between someone who studies maths grudgingly just to pass an exam and someone who likes maths genuinely.

For us Indians, he is legend

Incredible story, incredible ! I am studying math and some of its history as my side-hobby but up until now i hadn't encountered myself, through my efforts, a stories about this brilliant mathematician. What a great finding!

I find this book and learning process more attractive that the standard "here's the full thing, now memorize it and apply it". It's like sorted puzzle pieces you have to think through, understand and connect. You're free to explore them however you want, without a constrained order or list of X problems due in 2 days.

I want to mention that he also used S.L loney book for trigonometry

He deserves noble prize

I loved "The Man Who Knew Infinity" !