It may be worth clarifying that this isn't "papers of" as in "scholarly publications in journals by", but as in "pieces of paper associated with"; these are nice high-resolution scans of a box of papers at Trinity College, Cambridge relating to Ramanujan. Letters between other mathematicians about Ramanujan's work; some handwritten manuscripts by Ramanujan himself (including the famous "Lost Notebook"); a passport photo of Ramanujan.

Definitely interesting for Ramanujan enthusiasts, but if you're looking for (say) his papers with Hardy about partitions, numbers of prime factors of "typical" numbers, etc., then this isn't the place to go.

Something that can't be said about very many people -- Ramanujan has an integer named after him: 1729.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)

This is hands-down my favorite math story:

It is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number, after an anecdote of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy when he visited Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in hospital. He related their conversation:

I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."

I recently started working through his collected papers a few months ago and have a really nice hardcover. Wow they are so hard!! Also have read every volume of his lost notebooks back in college. Sometimes when I start a new paper I think: why would anyone ever think of that, who cares anyway, and what does that even mean.

It takes about 10 minutes to read one line. But its worth it cause he was able to create his own path and what he does with formal power series and summing divergent series is staggering to behold

His life story is incredibly interesting. I also think that it is a lesson to us all that someone doesn't have to be formally trained in a field to make major contributions to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

Ramanujan was born too early. I wish he was alive in today's independent and richer india, he could have achieved so much more.

I recommend reading "The Man Who Knew Infinity". It's really devastating the way he died.

It seems that a lot of math geniuses died premature. Eisenstein, Abel, Galois, Riemann..

I've read some of his work.. there are formulas appearing out of nowhere, like magic. He said that he saw them in his dreams.

He had access to 1 book, basically, a collection of math theorems and that's it. Only 900 pages (IIRC) and the rest of the stuff he discovered (and re-discovered in some cases) on his own.

Unparalleled genius!

Before you make grand suggestions of what his genius could be, you would be well-afforded to read this

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/04/who-was-ramanujan/

This is fantastic, I’m going to choose something that would make a nice large print to frame for a wall in my house.

A trend on home improvement shows is to print out old patent drawings and hang them as decoration. It always seemed so off putting necause most people never bothered to choose based on work that was intesterimg or meaningful to them, or even know what the patent was about.

For me this feels the opposite, so many personal connections...The subject matter, respect for his talent and contributions, the person, and in huge part the inspiration of being to achieve in the face of long odds and adversity.

I actually just read a bit about him in Matt Parker's "Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension", which I highly recommend. I've always enjoyed math and long regretted not taking more math classes for fun at university, and this is a really fun tour to lots of aspects of math I haven't had occasion to think about much before, including some of Srinivasa's talents for number theory.

Ramanujan did what made him happy. He was good at what he did. Maybe he was so absorbed in his work that he hadn't had time to think about his circumstances. He was a natural.

There are millions of people who have done a lot of piano practice since they were young; how many of them are comparable talents to Mozart? The whole 10,000 hours thing is overhyped. For every Wayne Gretzky there's countless other kids just as obsessed with hockey who were not good enough for the NHL.