Ramanujan vs Infinity A Genius Ahead of Time
Published on Nov 20, 2025 by Compute Labs
In 19th century in england those mathematician calculate partitions for small numbers:
| n | p(n) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 5 |
| 5 | 7 |
| 6 | 11 |
| 7 | 15 |
| 10 | 42 |
| 50 | 204,226 |
But as n got bigger…
the partitions exploded so fast that
even the brightest minds in England felt:
“It’s finite…
but we don’t know how to reach the answer.”
Because it was tough to write and compute using pen paper.
They didn’t understand:
1️⃣ How fast this growth explodes
2️⃣ Why it behaves like this
3️⃣ A universal rule behind all numbers
4️⃣ How to predict p(100), p(1000), …
Ramanujan saw the infinite pattern behind them
He discovered the law of growth:
a formula that predicts huge results without computing millions of values.
Today, with super-computers we could calculate with limited numbers.
Yet Ramanujan knew the formula without computers without advanced education
without research labs
Before computers could count infinity,
Ramanujan understood infinity.
Thank you.