Srinivasa Ramanujan , a Mathematical Genius. Srinivasa Ramanujan, the brilliant twentieth century Indian mathematician, has been compared with all-time greats like Euler, Gauss and Jacobi, for his natural mathematical genius. It may be impossible to define who a mathematical genius is, or, genius for that matter.

Why was Ramanujan a genius?

Among his achievements in mathematics, Ramanujan built a bridge between number theory and analysis, another field in mathematics, which was extraordinary because the former mostly focuses on whole numbers and the latter on continuously-changing quantities.

Was Ramanujan gifted?

Some of the students studying in nearby colleges gifted Ramanujan, who was already teaching Mathematics to his classmates, three years his senior at the time, a book. “They gave him a copy of GS Carr, A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure Mathematics. ... This is being used by IIT and JEE students now.