Personal Struggles and Return to India The Cambridge climate, wartime food shortages, and difficulties adapting to a foreign culture weighed heavily on Ramanujan’s health. He suffered from a debilitating illness — often described at the time as tuberculosis or hepatic amoebiasis — worsened by malnutrition. Despite recovering some health after returning to India in 1919, he died on April 26, 1920, at the age of 32.
Cambridge Years and Mathematical Contributions Invited to Cambridge, Ramanujan arrived in 1914. Over the next five years, under Hardy’s mentorship (and sometimes stern guidance), Ramanujan published dozens of papers and further filled his notebooks. His work spans many areas, but some highlights include: the man who knew infinity index
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