: Identifying a special class of numbers with more divisors than any smaller number.
His brilliance was so singular that he twice lost university scholarships because he neglected all subjects except math. Living on the brink of starvation, he spent his nights filling notebooks with equations that wouldn't be fully understood for nearly a century. The Unlikely Partnership Man Who knew Infinity
His life—immortalized in Robert Kanigel's biography The Man Who Knew Infinity and the 2015 film starring Dev Patel—is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of science. It is a tale of a self-taught clerk from Madras who, with no formal training, transformed the landscape of modern mathematics. From Obscurity to the "Lost Notebooks" : Identifying a special class of numbers with