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I don’t know - I just do … https://youtube.com/shorts/g5wWir2J6Kc Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan - https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-genius-math-is-still-catching-up-20241021/ - Born poor in colonial [India] and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today. # Hardy, a mathematical giant in his own right, is said to have quipped that his greatest contribution to mathematics was the discovery of Ramanujan. # He ( Ramanujan ) was fond of saying that his equations had been bestowed on him by the gods. # In 1904, he was granted a full scholarship to the Government Arts College in [Kumbakonam], the small city where he had grown up, in what is now the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. But he ignored all subjects besides math and lost his scholarship within a year. # He later enrolled in another university, this time in Madras (now Chennai), the provincial capital some 250 kilometers north. Again he flunked out. [Genius] {tags: Mathematician, People, Genius}
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