this story is about a physics prodigy, but a mathematical equation appears in it -- the first time I read story the equation didn't make any sense to me, but eventually I realized that it was a continued fraction -- only much later did I discover something that isn't mentioned in the story: this equation was one of the results that Ramanjuan cited in his initial letters to Hardy!

The use of the quote from the letter to Hardy was particualrly apt, because R was the (explicitly cited) model for Gomez.