Being barely within academia today means having access to all the papers released along with many blog posts by PhD's who analyze the results and repercussions

Being barely within academia today means having access to all the papers released along with many blog posts by PhD's who analyze the results and repercussions of a paper or a discovery. The only example of out-of-academia, in the real sense, was Ramanujan[1] who was a sort of pure genius out of nowhere and was able to pull out formulas like this [2]. He wasn't constrict by the rigorous need for proof that Europeans were looking in order to accept any discovery for being true. De Sautoy[3] states that Ramanujan non-formal (western-style) education kept him away from European mathematical achievements and but also away from European fears of inability to attack specific problems (i.e. like Riemann's Hypothesis for example[4]) and that was a good thing. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan [2] http://bit.ly/1dh0E5w http://bit.ly/1dh0E5w (Google image) [3] http://plus.maths.org/content/music-primes http://plus.maths.org/content/music-primes [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis