It's a movie, and Hollywood doesn't make documentaries, so, grain of salt.
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Posted on 04/30/2016 8:09:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
(Inside Science) – In 1914, an unknown Indian man boarded a ship and traveled across the world to Cambridge University in England, where he could finally follow his passion for mathematics. In the few short years between his arrival and untimely death, he filled notebooks with formulas and discovered theorems, some of which still influence the work of mathematicians and scientists today.
The new biopic, "The Man Who Knew Infinity," which opens in U.S. theaters beginning Friday, April 29, chronicles the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan. A self-taught Indian mathematician from the city then called Madras (now Chennai), Ramanujan struggled to overcome racism, poverty, and outsider status in imperial Britain during the tumultuous time of World War I. But he eventually won over the mathematical community and was the second Indian to become a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Written and directed by Matthew Brown, the film gives an authentic portrayal of how mathematicians actually work. At Cambridge, Ramanujan, began an unlikely partnership with G. H. Hardy, who quickly recognized his impressive, if untrained, mathematical abilities.
(Excerpt) Read more at insidescience.org ...
It must be 9 instead of 6.
Ping for Netflix/Amazon....
“destroying hundreds if not thousands of ancient libraries. They are scum.”
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jpsb
I am no apologist for Islam, but somehow I can look at it from their side. Imagine you genuinely believed you had been given access to the whole truth, that no further development was necessary. This “Truth” was inconsistent with the cultures around you (an advantage, from your point of view), and that clinging to that led you to great success. It would turn most people’s heads. Other sources of information would be automatically discredited and rightfully marked for destruction. It’s appalling, but it makes a sort of internal sense.
Yes I understand your argument, however the destruction of other cultural achievements is despicable and only Islam does that.
The six should have been a nine.
Chuck Norris has counted to infinity. Twice.
See, he tells how he does it, but nobody believes him. No one in the entire world could do what he did, but everyone is absolutely certain he was wrong about what he repeatedly experienced while he did it.
You know why we can't have nice things? That's why we can't have nice things!
LOL
Here you have a guy from the poorest of poor nations who teaches himself math but here in the USA we have teaches giving a failing grade to a person who says 2+2=4 because common core math says it is not correct.
Izat a zero or a one?
Obviously, the Royal Society is also a fake.
Very good. Arabs coopted through the sword what they are given credit for.
The answer (which is one cubed plus two cubed) was given in Post #27, which is three cubed, eh?
It's a movie, and Hollywood doesn't make documentaries, so, grain of salt.
Right, it’s 9 cubed plus 10 cubed.
Ten cubed plus nine cubed.
The short article doesn’t begin to do Ramanujan justice. He rediscovered hundreds of years if not millenia of maths proofs entirely on his own, as independently as a solitary lotus flower.
I already said that back in Post #27, a couple of minutes after reading the original article. I’m glad everybody else picked up on it. You did know that 729 is (one cubed plus two cubed) cubed, right? You figured that out?
Yes
I told that joke to a S.C. redneck once. He looked puzzled, said he looked in his pants and got to twenty but was mystified for getting to twenty one. I asked him if he counted his finger he was pointing to fingers and toes with ... his look of ‘Ah hah’ was priceless.
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