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I agree that teaching yourself mathematics is possible, but I don't think Ramanujan is a good example. He was a prodigy with something about his brain that was
by warent 7y ago
I agree that teaching yourself mathematics is possible, but I don't think Ramanujan is a good example. He was a prodigy with something about his brain that was simply wired for mathematics and patterns. Solutions came to him as divine visions with little formal rationale or proof.
- soVeryTired 7y agoRamanujan was also (relatively) bad at actually proving theorems, and worked mainly from intuition. He got a bit of culture shock when he moved to Cambridge and was expected to document his logic in the laborious detail that mathematics expects.