Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work G. H. Hardy
Publisher: Ams Chelsea Pub.

He left all subjects except mathematics in the college. Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work. O John Littlewood, on hearing of the taxicab incident. Five finest years of my life were spent in this University; two, out of these five, were spent here, in the science faculty; and one in this room where we used to do practicals in statistics. The nation is celebrating it as the Year of Mathematics. Hardy, in Ramanujan : Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work (1940) * Every positive integer is one of Ramanujan's personal friends. This year is the 125th birth anniversary of the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. He saw the work of Ramanujan and opined that Hardy of Trinity College would be the best person to judge his work. Here are a couple of paragraphs, from immediately after G.H. Hardy receives his first letter from Ramanujan in Madras, with several pages of groundbreaking mathematical proofs attached: At first glance, the complex array of numbers, letters, and symbols suggests a passing familiarity with, if not a fluency in, the language of his discipline. I read Robert Kanigel's "The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan" in '93, two years after it came out.