Number Theory In the early 20th century, often times people of colour were not held in high regard in academic fields. Such a concept was true for Srinivasa Ramanujan, a young mathematician from Erode, India. Although he was a prodigy in Mathematics, Ramanujan’s varying interpretations of number theory were mostly wrong. This is not meant to dissuade the fact that he had a strong intellectual prowess. He also had little…