How did G.H. Hardy regard his association with Ramanujan?
“As the worst experience of his life”
“As a professional requirement”
“As a trivial incident”
“As the one romantic incident in my life”
Answer
G.H. Hardy considered his association with Srinivasa Ramanujan to be “the one romantic incident in my life.” Hardy was a mathematician at Cambridge University, and Ramanujan was a self-taught mathematician from India. They met in 1914, and Hardy was immediately impressed by Ramanujan’s mathematical ability. He helped Ramanujan to publish his work, and they worked together on several mathematical problems.
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