Srinivasa Ramanujan was a self-taught Indian mathematician who made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. He impressed his teachers as a student with his natural talent and intuition for mathematics. Although hindered by poverty and ill health, his work enriched fields like number theory and later inspired physics. Ramanujan's letters and notebooks were filled with thousands of theorems and identities he had discovered on his own.