MATH IS STILL CATCHING UP TO THE MYSTERIOUS GENIUS OF SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN

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Srinivasa Ramanujan, who died at the age of 32 in 1920, had a mathematical gift that others did not. He came up with thousands of elegant and surprising results, often without proof, saying that his equations had been bestowed on him by gods. Mathematicians are still trying to catch up to his work more than 100 years later. This article takes a look at Ramanujan's life and work and how his insights continue to appear again and again in the world of mathematics.