2:49 "At 16, he [Ramanujan] stumbled by chance across a copy of George Shoobridge Carr's seminal work, "A Synopsis Of Elementary Results In Pure And Applied Mat

2:49 "At 16, he [Ramanujan] stumbled by chance across a copy of George Shoobridge Carr's seminal work, "A Synopsis Of Elementary Results In Pure And Applied Mathematics", and began to work through its 5,000 theorems..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synopsis_of_Pure_Mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synopsis_of_Pure_Mathematics https://archive.org/details/synopsisofelemen00carrrich/page/n5/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/synopsisofelemen00carrrich/page/... https://www.amazon.com/Synopsis-Elementary-Results-Applied-Mathematics/dp/1108050662 https://www.amazon.com/Synopsis-Elementary-Results-Applied-M...