The Sad Story of India's Math Prodigy

Srinivasa Ramanujan flunked college, then somehow ended up at Cambridge University. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Correction: @0:24 locator for Chennai is slightly off, should be coastal. My bad! Follow Newsthink on X! https://x.com/Newsthink Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Thank you to our Patrons, including: John & Becki Johnston Igli Laci Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Check out the book: The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Infinity-Ramanujan/dp/1476763496 Sources: 0:03 Indian Diplomacy | YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6bKCsRViTk 0:48 Adam Jones Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons 2:41 Prabhachatterji, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons 2:47 Aravind Sivaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons 3:49 © Jorge Royan / http://www.royan.com.ar Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons 7:55 Bcmnet at English Wikipedia, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons 9:45 Cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons 10:02 Seattle Municipal Archives, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) https://flickr.com/photos/24256351@N04/4072400611 via Flickr 10:25 Tom Morris, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons 10:41 Secondary Creator Credit: Genna Duberstein, Brian Monroe, Aaluk Edwardson, Eric Christian 12:48 Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons 12:50 Kondephy, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons