Not a mathematician, but some references I found after goolging a bit: [1] "The meaning of Ramanujam now and for the future", George E. Andrews. http://www.mat

Not a mathematician, but some references I found after goolging a bit: [1] "The meaning of Ramanujam now and for the future", George E. Andrews. http://www.math.psu.edu/andrews/pdf/274.pdf http://www.math.psu.edu/andrews/pdf/274.pdf [2] "The Ramanujam Journal", http://www.springer.com/mathematics/numbers/journal/11139 http://www.springer.com/mathematics/numbers/journal/11139 Quote from the conclusion of [1]: In his Presidential address to the London Mathematical Society in 1936, G. N. Watson spoke movingly of his emotional response to Ramanujan's achievements. I close by quoting his last few paragraphs [54; p. 80]: "The study of Ramanujan's work and of the problems to which it gives rise inevitably recalls to mind Lame's remark that, when reading Hermite's papers on modular functions, \on a la chair de poule." I would express my own attitude with more prolixity by saying that such a formula as: <snipped formula> gives me a thrill which is indistinguishable from the thrill which I feel when I enter the Sagrestia Nuova of the Capelle Medicee and see before me the austere beauty of the four statues representing Day, Night, Evening, and Dawn which Michelangelo has set over the tombs of Guiliano de Medici and Lorenzo de Medici. Ramanujan's discovery of the mock theta functions makes it obvious that his skill and ingenuity did not desert him at the oncoming of his untimely end. As much as any of his earlier work, the mock theta functions are an achievement sucient to cause his name to be held in lasting remembrance" To me, it's interesting that a community where fairly easy to build web-applications are called transformative and disruptive also has two out of thirteen comments critical of Ramanujam's impact.