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“Math has the beauty of poetry,” says the math wizard who once briefly contemplated taking up Sanskrit poetry.

Find out how this forgotten mathematician from Madhya Pradesh went on to solve an enigmatic mathematical puzzle that made him world famous! #LostTales #History #IndiansInScience

Once rediscovered, the pages electrified the world of mathematics. They were what the physicist Freeman Dyson remarked “flowers that grew from seeds that ripened in Ramanujan’s garden”.

“It was during the computations of the northeastern observations that Sikdar rushed on one morning in 1852 into the room of Sir Andrew Waugh & exclaimed, ‘Sir, I have discovered the highest mountain of the world’.

The world will soon remember the renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan once again, as a biopic on his life, named The Man Who Knew Infinity, is set to release this April.

Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-educated mathematician, pioneered brilliant discoveries of theorems. He was aided by Professor G. H. Hardy in England. The Man Who Knew Infinity, starring Dev Patel, is a biopic on his life.