Srinivasa Ramanujan Was a Genius. Math Is Still Catching Up.

Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught Indian mathematician, made groundbreaking contributions to mathematics, including partition identities that are still revealing new insights today. Mathematicians like Hussein Mourtada are uncovering deep connections between Ramanujan's work and modern mathematical fields such as algebraic geometry, knot theory, and prime number detection. Ramanujan's results often appeared without proof and are considered divinely inspired by his contemporaries and successors, continuing to impact various branches of mathematics more than a century later.