GH HARDY ON RAMANUJAN

i cudnt understand a single term, but seems that all r some hi fi concepts.may be many of u know the meaning of these words (lyk our forum experts and johny)...........

G. H. Hardy quotes: "The limitations of his knowledge were as startling as its profundity. Here was a man who could work out modular equations and theorems... to orders unheard of, whose mastery of continued fractions was... beyond that of any mathematician in the world, who had found for himself the functional equation of the zeta function and the dominant terms of many of the most famous problems in the analytic theory of numbers; and yet he had never heard of a doubly periodic function or of Cauchy's theorem, and had indeed but the vaguest idea of what a function of a complex variable was...". Hardy went on to claim that his greatest contribution to mathematics was discovering Ramanujan