My reaction to the article (even the end of it) was &quot;wow, this is far less bombastic and egotistic than Stephen&#x27;s normal writing, how refreshing.&quot; There are lots of books and articles purely about Ramanujan, why not offer something that&#x27;s more of a personal reflection and interesting&#x2F;relevant to Mathematica users? Maybe it only seemed good by contrast, but the level here of self-referencing his own background, work, products, interests didn&#x27;t seem to me to be &quot;disgusting&quot;, &quot;extraordinarily annoying&quot; or &quot;deeply disappointing&quot;, it all seemed quite nicely tied in.