God must love them.. or God must be afraid that His tricks are about to be unraveled.. We will probably never know the exact reason but one thing is known that both died young. Both were born decades apart, both were born thousands of miles apart, but both were providing profound framework for next generation Physics & Mathematics and both died young!! One was Reimann, George Friedrich Bernhard Riemann and another was Srinivasa Ramanujan. More about them can be read here

• George Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
• Srinivasa Ramanujan

This is a tribute to them..

Note:  This section I put in after seeing this on BBC News - Film to celebrate maths genius

Born: 22 Dec 1887 in Erode, Tamil Nadu state, India
Died: 26 April 1920 in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu state, India

Born: 17 Sept 1826 in Breselenz, Hanover (now Germany)
Died: 20 July 1866 in Selasca, Italy