Yes, he was. The whole story is interesting. Hardy once said that he rated himself 25 and Littlewood a 30 and Hilbert 80 but Ramanujan 100. When you consider that Hardy ,Littlewood and Hilbert were considered among the best in the world, then you understand Ramanujan a little better.
]]>Read that too, it kept Indian mathematicians from taking him seriously. That is only true in Ramanujan Summation. There is also Cesaro Sums amd Borel summation, each is a different approach to summing a divergent series. They are sometimes useful in Physics.
]]>Does anyone know how this came about or where I might go to read more about it? Thanks
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