Proper noun
Ramanujan (plural Ramanujans)
A surname from Tamil.
I still say to myself when I am depressed and find myself forced to listen to pompous and tiresome people "Well, I have done one thing you could never have done, and that is to have collaborated with Littlewood and Ramanujan on something like equal terms." G. H. Hardy
My own supervisor, William Hodge, the creator of the fertile theory of harmonic forms, was not a genius like Ramanujan but resembled Lefschetz. Michael Atiyah
After discussing the papers with Littlewood, Hardy concluded that the letters were "certainly the most remarkable I have received" and said that Ramanujan was "a mathematician of the highest quality, a man of altogether exceptional originality and power". Source: Internet
Although Hill did not offer to take Ramanujan on as a student, he did give thorough and serious professional advice on his work. Source: Internet
After six weeks, Ramanujan moved out of Neville's house and took up residence on Whewell's Court, a five-minute walk from Hardy's room. Source: Internet
At age 31 Ramanujan was one of the youngest Fellows in the history of the Royal Society. Source: Internet