Give reasons for being health problems of Ramanujan throughout his life. 2 mrk class 10
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Ramanujan’s illness
D. A. B. Young
A January night in 1913 found the two renowned Cambridge mathematicians
G.H. Hardy and J.E. Littlewood, in the latter’s rooms in Trinity College, poring over an
unsolicited manuscript of mathematical formulae, which had arrived that morning in
Hardy’s mail. The letter was from a 25-year-old Hindu clerk, Srinivasa Ramanujan
(1887-1920), who lived in Madras and was as regards mathematics entirely self-educated.
Many mathematicians receive letters from cranks and hoaxers, but it was at once obvious
that this author was no crank, since not one of his theorems, as E.H. Neville later pointed
out, could have been set in even the most advanced mathematics examination in the
world. The suspicion of a hoax by a competent mathematician, where familiar theorems
are skillfully disguised, was dispelled by Hardy’s recognition that a few of the results
defeated him completely;