| Anecdote | Summary | Location in Book | |----------|---------|------------------| | | Hardy visits Ramanujan in hospital; says taxi #1729 is dull; Ramanujan instantly corrects him | Ch. 7 | | “Every integer is Ramanujan’s personal friend” | Hardy marveling at Ramanujan’s intimacy with numbers | Ch. 8 | | The Namagiri dreams | Ramanujan claimed his goddess revealed formulas in dreams | Ch. 2, 4 | | No proof in first letter | Hardy lamented Ramanujan supplied theorems without proof | Ch. 6 | | FRS election | First Indian Fellow of the Royal Society (1918) | Ch. 15 |
Minor characters—like the British officer who denied Ramanujan a scholarship, or the landlady in Cambridge—may not appear. Instead, index the event : search “scholarship, rejected” or “lodging, Cambridge.” the man who knew infinity index
: The "dull" taxi number that Ramanujan famously identified as the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. The Lost Notebook | Anecdote | Summary | Location in Book
or specific mathematical concepts discussed in Robert Kanigel’s biography and its film adaptation. Reviews of the "Index of Terms" & Mathematical Content 2, 4 | | No proof in first
| Anecdote | Summary | Location in Book | |----------|---------|------------------| | | Hardy visits Ramanujan in hospital; says taxi #1729 is dull; Ramanujan instantly corrects him | Ch. 7 | | “Every integer is Ramanujan’s personal friend” | Hardy marveling at Ramanujan’s intimacy with numbers | Ch. 8 | | The Namagiri dreams | Ramanujan claimed his goddess revealed formulas in dreams | Ch. 2, 4 | | No proof in first letter | Hardy lamented Ramanujan supplied theorems without proof | Ch. 6 | | FRS election | First Indian Fellow of the Royal Society (1918) | Ch. 15 |
Minor characters—like the British officer who denied Ramanujan a scholarship, or the landlady in Cambridge—may not appear. Instead, index the event : search “scholarship, rejected” or “lodging, Cambridge.”
: The "dull" taxi number that Ramanujan famously identified as the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. The Lost Notebook
or specific mathematical concepts discussed in Robert Kanigel’s biography and its film adaptation. Reviews of the "Index of Terms" & Mathematical Content
