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Thanks, I enjoyed your review! This article calls Ramanujan an "experimental" mathematician: https://backchannel.com/who-was-ramanujan-83b4d5b05665 https://bac
by pjungwir 10y ago
Thanks, I enjoyed your review! This article calls Ramanujan an "experimental" mathematician:
https://backchannel.com/who-was-ramanujan-83b4d5b05665 https://backchannel.com/who-was-ramanujan-83b4d5b05665
Also Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire kind of describes Riemann in similar terms: working via playful exploration and intuition. It seems like the complex zeros of his equation are a practical example of "is it random?" and truths that "just are for no reason."