The letter that revealed Ramanujan’s genius

Ramanujan was a self-taught Indian mathematician who travelled to England to work with professor G H Hardy after sending him a letter describing some of his remarkable ideas. In this video we take a look at that letter and at Hardy’s initial response. Further reading/watching: Making sense of 1 2 3 ... = -1/12: YouTube Ramanujan documentary: Wolfram blog: The distribution of prime numbers: A Gentle Introduction to Analytic Continuation: Images of Ramanujan’s letter (on Twitter): A recent movie about Ramanujan is ’The man Who Knew Infinity’ directed by Matthew Brown 0:00 - Intro 1:03 - Ramanujan’s l