In college Ramanujan failed 2 times. Despite his academic failure Ramanujan threw himself into the pursuit of new results in mathematics. He worked long and hard. A friend of Ramanujan known as Sandow related the following conversation with Ramanujan: Sandow: Ramanju, they all call you a genius. Ramanujan: What! Me, a genius! Look at my elbow, it will tell you the story. Sandow: What is all this, Ramanju? Why is it so rough and black? Ramanujan: My elbow has become rough and black in making a genius of me! Night and day I do my calculations on slate. It is too slow to look for a rag to wipe it with. I wipe the slate almost every few minutes with my elbow. Sandow: So, you are a mountain of industry. Why use a slate when you have to do so much calculation? Why not use paper? Ramanujan: When food itself is a problem, how can I find money for paper? I may require four reams of paper every month.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:52:16 +0000
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