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.
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ZinGirl: “Bragger. I can only count to 20.”
Oh... anyone can do much better.
Just add in nose, tongue, elbows, knees, heels, ancles... etc., until you reach the numbers you desire.
;-)
That’s to advanced.
;-)
That’s what democrats do, but they always lose count and have to start over if it gets higher than twenty five.
You have to at least have enough imagination to dream about nice things, whether by day or by night. If you haven't been challenged to explore and expand the rim of your experience, it is unlikely that you will dream beyond it.
Pity many of our poorly challenged children, who only see drugs, obscenities, and filth, who will miss beauty in their lives and die without it..
I believe that most of this capability for adventure of the mind becomes real only while an infant's mind is developing and probably ceases to grow at about the time of puberty. I don't know what the educators philosophize about, but simply training children to fit some kind of existing job when their schooling is done seems rather limiting and without much challenge.
I want to see this movie before it becomes too stale for the theaters.
1 x 1 x 1 = 1
12 x 12 x 12 = 1728
1 + 1728 = 1729
9 x 9 x 9 = 729
10 x 10 x 10 = 1000
729 + 1000 = 1729
Therefore, 1 cubed plus 12 cubed = 1729 and 9 cubed plus 10 cubed also equals 1729. Thus, no error in the statement.
In the article it’s 9 cubed plus 10 cubed, not 6 cubed.
Bump for later.
In fact, a shorter answer is that:
(one cubed plus two cubed) cubed plus three cubed = 1729,
which fact was posted a few days ago, also.
Got that?
That is not correct. The original article reads exactly the way I cut and pasted it into Post #24.
That is not correct. The original article reads exactly the way I cut and pasted it into Post #24. Read the errats note at the bottom of the article:
"Additional note: This story originally contained a math error, which one of our readers helpfully pointed out. We've corrected the text and we regret the error."
My apology on this! The above statement I made is not right at all! One cubed plus two cubed is nine, not ten!
I guess I'm not so smart, hm?
Adding it to my list, though if it comes to KC it’ll probably be in one of the art theaters on the Kansas side.
Flip the 6 upside down, and you have your answer.
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