"It was only the genius of Ramanujan
that could transmute the handicaps
of colonialism into a triumph."
— See more at:
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/01/
the-use-and-misuse-of-srinivasa-ramanujan.html
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Welcome to the Jungle Book
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Thursday, August 25, 2016
The Man Who Knew Zero
(Continued from April 29, Uma Thurman's birthday )
April 29, 2016, was the opening date for a film
about Ramanujan, "The Man Who Knew Infinity,"
as well as Uma Thurman's birthday. (Uma is
named for a Hindu goddess.)
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Consolation Prize
For Kathrin Bringmann, who has been mentioned as a possible candidate for a Fields Medal.
The four Fields medal winners were announced today at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad, India. Bringmann was not among them.
Bringmann was, however, the winner of the 2009 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize—
See The Hindu of September 30, 2009 and this journal on that date—
For more about Bringmann's work, see an article on what has been called Ramanujan's "final problem."
For another problem with a claim to this title, see "Mathematician Untangles Legendary Problem" and search in this journal for Dyson + crank.
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