If you think Ramanujan was simply smart or "gifted" as society defines that term, you probably didn't look into his story deeply enough. A deeply religious Hin

If you think Ramanujan was simply smart or "gifted" as society defines that term, you probably didn't look into his story deeply enough. A deeply religious Hindu, Ramanujan credited his substantial mathematical capacities to divinity, and stated that the mathematical knowledge he displayed was revealed to him by his family goddess. Ramanujan's first Indian biographers describe him as a rigorously orthodox Hindu. He credited his acumen to his family goddess, Mahalakshmi of Namakkal. He looked to her for inspiration in his work and said he dreamed of blood drops that symbolised her consort, Narasimha. Afterward he would receive visions of scrolls of complex mathematical content unfolding before his eyes Kanigel, Robert (1991). The Man Who Knew Infinity: a Life of the Genius Ramanujan PS: I'm atheist.