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She has done exceptional calculations and she used to do shows where people got to ask her random number multiplication and they'd verify it with a calculator.
by thewhitetulip 6y ago
She has done exceptional calculations and she used to do shows where people got to ask her random number multiplication and they'd verify it with a calculator.
She wasn't a fluke. Unfortunately, she didn't contribute to Maths because she didn't have education
- blackoil 6y agoNo way denying her prowess in calculations. Simply curious if it translates to multi-dimensional intelligence or was it limited to calculations. Also, I am not questioning her general intelligence, but when I said fluke, I meant if growth/difference in some part of brain gave her 1 in a billion intelligence but limited only to mathematical calculations.
- thewhitetulip 6y agoOh like that? I watched her biopic and she was having general intelligence I think, based on the biopic. She was a jerk to her parents and to her only daughter. But at the end she did patch up with her daughter. I don't think she was outstanding outside maths.
- adictator 6y agoI think that biopic misrepresented her. Assuming you're talking of the recent one starring Vidya Balan.
- mayankkaizen 6y agoIn Ramanujan's biography, there is a mention of a british guy who was very fast at calculations. He was faster than Ramanujan himself. Unlike Ramanujan, that guy had easy access to all the modern math literature of the time but still he wasn't a mathematician. And Ramanujan became first class mathematician even without any resources or formal education. I think doing calculation is mechanical skill. But gaining insights from those calculations is wholly different skill.
- thewhitetulip 6y agoYes she was just a fast computer. She never claimed that she is a maths person