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Mystery of the Mathematician From Madras

Srinivasa Ramanujan
How, in 1913, did a poor young man from southern India come up with algebraic equations that stumped the world's leading number theorist? And how was the source of his equations finally figured out 100 years later? ... And what is phi and what does it have to do with The Da Vinci Code?: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2014/06/06/century-old-math-mystery-solved/#.U5SzVi-5bgc

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