{"quotes":[{"text":"No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. … Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; … [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. … A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.","author":"G.H. Hardy","tags":["abel","age","galois","math","mathematician","originality","ramanujan","riemann","science"],"id":115693,"author_id":"G.H.+Hardy"},{"text":"Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, 'I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package.","author":"Robert Kanigel","tags":["algebra","computer-algebra-system","history","math","ramanujan"],"id":167098,"author_id":"Robert+Kanigel"},{"text":"For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["autodidact","autodidactism","autodidacts","brainy","da-vinci","darwin","dropout","education","faraday","inspirational","inspiring","knowledge","leadership","motivational","naskar","ramanujan","self-education","wisdom"],"id":398305,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly—yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of natural mathematical ability on which he assigned himself a 25 and Littlewood a 30. To David Hilbert, the most eminent mathematician of the day, he assigned an 80. To Ramanujan he gave 100.","author":"Robert Kanigel","tags":["david-hilbert","g-h-hardy","gh-hardy","godfrey-hardy","godfrey-harold-hardy","hardy","hilbert","john-edensor-littlewood","john-littlewood","littlewood","math","mathematicians","mathematics","ramanujan","science","srinivasa-ramanujan"],"id":455219,"author_id":"Robert+Kanigel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}