Posted on 05/13/2022 9:33:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Oh No dsrtsage Di’int!
thank you
RE: Confirmed: PhD means squat.
In India in the early 20th century, there was a young provincial kid from a poor village named Srinavasa Ramanujan.
Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable.
Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation at home: according to Hans Eysenck: “He tried to interest the leading professional mathematicians in his work, but failed for the most part.
What he had to show them was too novel, too unfamiliar, and additionally presented in unusual ways; they could not be bothered”.
Seeking mathematicians who could better understand his work, in 1913 he began a postal correspondence with the English mathematician G. H. Hardy, Professor at the University of Cambridge, England.
Recognising Ramanujan’s work as extraordinary, Hardy arranged for him to travel to Cambridge. In his notes, Hardy commented that Ramanujan had produced groundbreaking new theorems, including some that “defeated me completely; I had never seen anything in the least like them before”, some recently proven but highly advanced results.
ALL THESE WITHOUT COLLEGE EDUCATION!
In Cambridge, Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3,900 results (mostly identities and equations).
Many were completely novel; his original and highly unconventional results, such as the Ramanujan prime, the Ramanujan theta function, partition formulae and mock theta functions, have opened entire new areas of work and inspired a vast amount of further research.
Of his thousands of results, all but a dozen or two have now been proven correct.
Unfortunately, 1919, ill health—now believed to have been hepatic amoebiasis (a complication from episodes of dysentery many years previously)—compelled Ramanujan’s return to India, where he died in 1920 at the age of 32.
Some people are just NATURALLY gifted by God from birth.
There is a book written in his tribute. It should be available at your local library. The title us THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY by Robert Kanigel
“It’s unnecessary to pay me for such an easy problem,” he said.”
Boy, that’s really rubbing it in!
And they hold that against me is the frustrating part.
What was the problem solved??
LOL.
I think sometimes people don’t necessarily have more talent or ability than other people might, they just have a different perspective and notice different things.
I believe that some Chinese ice skating mathematicians can do a triple gaokao.
Great scene from the film Hidden Figures.
“OK, kid- here’s the calculation. Where’d we f*** up?”
As incredible as this math magician’s skills are I was knocked senseless by the first sentence...”A Chinese genius flexed his mathematical prowess by solving a problem that flummoxed a team of mathematicians with Ph.D.s for four months in a single night.” Did the mathematicians only get their Ph.D.s four months ago or did the flummoxing actually accelerate time causing 4 months to pass in just one night? This is truly baffling. Maybe the mathematician who solved the problem could rewrite that first sentence.
I had to look up several sources to understand how to calculate a percentage. I wrote down and made examples and I still have issues if I do not look at what I wrote down about how to.
This guy probably took a glance at the problem and had it figured out right away but did not want to embarrass the others so he said it took him one day to figure out.
As I said, this goes for music and art as well. A friend of mine who was studying to be a music conductor picked up my Celtic harp I never could figure out how to play, tuned it up and started playing like a pro. He never played a harp before.
It should be an American figuring out this stuff. Unfortunately, they are all too busy trying to determine their gender while also attempting to groom the students who look up to them for an education.
Ramanujan's correspondence with the renowned mathematician G. H Hardy led him to being invited to study in England, though whilst there he fell sick. Visiting him in hospital, Hardy remarked that the taxi that had brought him to the hospital had a very “rather dull number” – number 1729. Ramanujan remarked in reply, ” No Hardy, it’s a very interesting number! It’s the smallest number expressible as the sum of 2 cubes in 2 different ways!”
Math?
MIT
OR CALTECH
Not Harvard
Your tagline is 100 per cent correct
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