Plenty mathematicians, Hardy knew, follow a step-by-step discursus unf — Robert Kanigel, Man Knew Infinity: A Life Genius Ramanujan

Robert Kanigel The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

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Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly—yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of natural mathematical ability on which he assigned himself a 25 and Littlewood a 30. To David Hilbert, the most eminent mathematician of the day, he assigned an 80. To Ramanujan he gave 100.

Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

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