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Ramanujan was self taught working on a small slate. As a result, he only wrote statements of proofs without details. When G.H. Hardy, one of the top mathematicians of his time, saw them, he said some he recognized, some he solved with great difficulty and some he could not solve. Clearly Ramanujan, a math obsessed, genius, was understanding and thinking mathematics at a deeper level than anyone else.

Every time another theorem is proven from the single statement in "The Lost Notebook", it creates openings of exploration. His mathematical gifts continue to enrich understanding of the subject.

Some quotes about him from people who understand his genius.

They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

G. H. Hardy

In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.

James R Newman

That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.

Freeman Dyson

The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]

Freeman Dyson

There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you feel is your own.[About verifying Ramanujan's equations in a newly found manuscript.]

George Andrews