This is known as the taxicab incident. G H Hardy, Ramanujan's mentor/friend at Cambridge, visited him at the hospital and the rest of the story is in the picture above.
Ramanujan's intellect was so sharp even in sickness - almost on his deathbed.
On hearing this, John E Littlewood is said to have remarked, "Every positive integer is one of Ramanujan's personal friends."
The name of Robert Kanigel's book on Ramanujan is "The Man Who Knew Infinity".
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Nice tribute Anil!
ReplyDeleteThanks Sridhar
ReplyDeleteI thot of illustrating this! but I had forgotten the number! Remember reading it during my school days.
ReplyDeleteI must illustrate something else now :(
Nice drawing Anil! I can visualize now what i read in school :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful post!
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