************************************************************************************* Title: The Indian Genius, Ramanujan: His Life and His Lost Notebook Abstract: This talk focuses on the famous Indian genius, Ramanujan, and will provide an account of his amazing, albeit short life. We shall try to lead gently from the story of his life to a discussion of some of Ramanujan's achievements. The first half of the talk will rely at most on arithmetic. All of the remainder of the talk should be easily understood by anyone who has taken calculus, and much of it can be understood by students currently taking calculus. *************************************************************************************