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.