The Man Who Knew Infinity

But the death of his infant brothers and sister during those early years meant that he grew up with the solicitous regard and central position of an only child

Thus, with one name that of his father and another that of his caste, only “Ramanujan” was his alone. As he would later explain to a Westerner, “I have no proper surname.”

It is a story of one man and his stubborn faith in his own abilities