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Inspired by Srinivasa Ramanujan : How a Mathematician Found His Way
- yarapavan 10y agoThe original Qaunta Magazine story is at https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160519-ken-ono-mathematician-inspired-by-ramanujan/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160519-ken-ono-mathematicia... Ken Ono's memoir is published by Springer at http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319255668 http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319255668
- shunyaloop 10y ago>[Srinivasa Ramanujan] anticipated mathematical structures that would be important to all of these more contemporary works. He lived 80 years before his time. Isn't it fascinating to hear such impactful math from an unknown South Indian clerk who died at 32 years? Wondering what would've been possible if he had lived a full life.