Guests paid at least £330 for the double ticket to Mondays event, and were promised unlimited food and drink .Organisers of the ball, at Trinity College, bragged that they had put on Cambridge s best ball .
Updated Dec 22, 2020 | 15:57 IST
Ramanujan s time at Trinity College in Cambridge University saw him produce some of his finest work that continues to serve as the cornerstone for 21st century mathematics. A portrait of the late Srinivasa Ramanujan. | Photo Credit: Twitter
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Displaying remarkable ability from the earliest of ages, by the time he was a teenager he had already mastered college-level mathematics courses
In three years alone, Ramanujan himself published over 30 research papers many of which were responsible for major advances in 20th-century mathematics
GH Hardy was so awestruck by Ramanujan s intuitive ability that he even went so far as to compare him to two of the greatest-ever mathematicians in history – Euler and Jacobi