1.Mathematics,rightly viewed,possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.真正地理解数学,它不仅象征着真理,还有无尽的魅力.伯特兰罗素.
2.Great knowledge often comes from the humblest of origins.伟大的知识总是来源于微笑的发现.
3.Take it as a sign of respect to quieten this lot.安静是尊重的标志.
4.Hardy:Bertie,if I could prove,by logic,that you are gonna die in 5 minutes,I'd be sorry,but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by the pleasure in the proof.
5.Ramanujan:No,sir.You believe in God.You just don't think he likes you.
6.Hardy:Intuition can only carry you so far.直觉只能帮你到这里.
7.Hardy:He tole me that an equation for him had no meaning unless it expressed a thought of God.
8.Hardy:His originality has been a constant source of suggestion to me ever since I first met him.他的独创性一直是启发我的源泉.
9.Hardy:1729.
Ramanujan:No,Hardy.It is a very interesting number.It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.它是可以用两个立方之和来表达且有两种方法表达的数中1729是最小的.1729 = 1^3+12^3 = 9^3+10^3
10.In 1976,a "lost notebook" was discovered containing groundbreaking new formulas from the last year of Ramanujan's life.The importance of which was compared to the discovery of Beethoven's Tenth Symphony.A century later these fumulas are being used to understand the behavior of black holes.一个世纪后这些公式被用于解释黑洞的奥秘.