For those wishing to learn a little more: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#Ramanujan.27s_notebooks" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#Ramanujan.2...</a>
It is very nice to see the notebooks. I grew up hearing stories about him from my mother, herself a math teacher. I especially remember learning about Ramanujan number 1729 at a very young age (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_%28number%29" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_%28number%29</a>) and naively trying to invent my own number :-)
I have pdf's of all three notebook , if anyone want I can send them. You can get my email from google.<p>P.S. : I always have been huge fan of Ramanujan , despite condition he faced , he become to great mathematician on his own.
I first learned about this guys work in The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy. Excellent read for anyone interested in these topics. I understand maybe one hundredth of the mathematics and it's still seriously fascinating.
This guy should be a hero to everyone who has taught themselves programming, computers, business...anything. Though he was already a mathematical powerhouse as a teenager, he still dropped out of college and endured very hard times while he wrote these notebooks. Ramanujan was <i>well</i> below "ramen profitable," and very much a "solo founder."<p>Possibly an object lesson for VCs as well.
I have biography book ( PDF ) of Ramanujan with me , mail me up if you are really interested to read more about him. Will be happy to help.<p>P.S. I made a site dedicated to him <a href="http://mathalon.in/?page=contacts.php" rel="nofollow">http://mathalon.in/?page=contacts.php</a>