American Mathematical Society on Srinivasa Ramanujan

“That Ramanujan conceived these problems, sometimes before anyone else had done so, with no contact with the European mathematical community, and that he correctly obtained the dominant terms in asymptotic formulas are astounding achievements that should not be denigrated because of his unrigorous, but clever, arguments.”

“Ramanujan proved many theorems for products of hypergeometric functions and stimulated much research by W. N. Bailey and others on this topic.”