Watson concluded his presidential address to the London Mathematical Society in 1937 by saying that one Ramanujan formula gave him “a thrill which is indistinguishable from the thrill which I feel when I enter the Sagrestia Nuova of the Capelle Medicee and see before me the austere beauty of the four statues representing, ‘Day,’ ‘Night,’ ‘Evening,’ and ‘Dawn’ which Michelangelo has set over the tombs” of the Medicis.
