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An anonymous reader writes "This is cool - if mind-bending. A century ago, a self-taught math genius from India noticed some patterns in how numbers can be created by adding other numbers. Now a grad student has finished the job showing that the patterns apply to all prime numbers, not just some. There's more on the Indian math guy here."
you mean Srinivasa Ramanujan
Due to financial difficulties, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.
Let's not use real names or give any credit to some guy.
More on Ramanujan at St. Andrews
Also at physorg.
It all deals with the Partition function.
The Indian mathematician outsourced this to a US grad student
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
"Andrews says the methods used to arrive at the result will probably be applicable to problems in areas far afield from mathematics. He and Mahlburg note partitions have been used previously in understanding the various ways particles can arrange themselves, as well as in encrypting credit card information sent over the internet."
That's got to be the worst write up I've ever seen on /.
This statement implies that the genius is famous because he noticed that there is/are pattern(s) in how you can add up numbers to get other numbers . . . that statement is so vague that the discovery could be incredible or intuitively obvious.
Quoted from one of the links is a much better explanation below:
One remarkable result of the Hardy-Ramanujan collaboration was a formula for the number p(n) of partitions of a number n. A partition of a positive integer n is just an expression for n as a sum of positive integers, regardless of order. Thus p(4) = 5 because 4 can be written as 1+1+1+1, 1+1+2, 2+2, 1+3, or 4. The problem of finding p(n) was studied by Euler, who found a formula for the generating function of p(n) (that is, for the infinite series whose nth term is p(n)xn). While this allows one to calculate p(n) recursively, it doesn't lead to an explicit formula. Hardy and Ramanujan came up with such a formula (though they only proved it works asymptotically; Rademacher proved it gives the exact value of p(n)).
Straight from the horses mouth... http://www.news.wisc.edu/10833.html I saw that a few days ago during the Nanotechnology article; I never thought of submitting it.
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
That Ramanujan is refered to as `that Indian math guy'...
I thought this was news for nerds, sure maybe not everyone knows who Ramanujan was, but a good proportion should, at least enough that you don't have to demean him with a vague description.
a self-taught math genius from India noticed some patterns in how numbers can be created by adding other numbers.
yeah, I saw that too. Like, how if you have a 4, and add a 1, you get a 5. It's pretty cool.
"We would not have expected that the crank would have been the right answer to so many of these congruence theorems"
ah crank.. is there anything it cant do?
"Na-hee, na-na-jar. Na-hee-na-na-jar.
It's not that difficult."
"Yeah, well at least your name isn't Michael Bolton."
It is interesting that the New Scientist article basically attributes the idea of studying number partitions to Ramanujan, yet the linked article on him mentions that Euler had studied the problem before, and given a partial solution...
Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
That German physics guy was in the news today, too. Interesting that they both came up with their ideas while working as a clerk. Maybe Dante and Randal will eventually lick cold fusion or something.
GH Hardy (he wrote A Mathematician's Apology) speaking of Ramanujan:
I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
(London 1940).
"The more you know, the less sure you are." - Voltaire
Not really. It only works if you are Muslim and male there. Pakistan actually has laws which include rape as a punishment for women, and the system also encourages killing of non-Muslims by specifically (in the code of law) making the killing of a non-Muslim a minor crime compared to the killing of a Muslim. I can provide links to both horrific laws if you want. That is not very intellectual or nurturing. Islam has absolutely no place in law, and any country that governs by Islamic law is declaring a war on those who don't worship the Muslim god. That is rather anti-intellectual. The same goes, of course, for any government that forces any religion on its people, including Christianity.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
... if you'd posted anonymously.
Infuriate left and right
The summary didn't name Karl Mahlburg, the subject of the article, either.
Or his mother cooked for him, and later his wife cooked for him.
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... that Ramanujan gets referred to on slashdot as the "Indian math guy" and is followed by jokes on outsourcing. You can read about him at http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Ramanuja n.html
or read the book "The Man who knew infinity" by Robert Kanigel.
He had remarkable contributions in number theory, all made
with very little formal training. His story cannot be explained
in any other way but supreme in-born genius (he himself explained it by inspiration from the goddess Namagiri).
The attitude to math in the general populace is one of total
avoidance. I had hopes that the average slashdotter was different.
I believe that the American Mathematical Society wrote up a nice review of his lost or last notebook a few years ago.
"sweet dreams are made of this..."
The coolest reference on Hardy's reaction to Ramanujan's initial letter is seen in a letter that was sent by Bertrand Russell to an acquaintance. It goes something like:
"Saw Littlewood and Hardy in a considerable state of excitement. They claim to have discovered a second Newton, a Hindu clerk working in Madras for 20 pounds a year...It's all secret now, of course. I feel excited to know this"
From: Ramanujan: Letters and Commenary
Bruce C. Berndt and Robert L. Rankin.
American Mathematical Society-London Mathematical Society.
"how numbers can be created by adding other numbers"... that sounds more like the observation of an American presidency guy.
I was going to mention the Robert Kanigel book as well. It's a great book. You've beaten me to the punch.
Does this mean I've been wasting my CPU cycles?
I am a self taught web surfer from Indiana. I like puzzles and I like the way the editor drew me into the article by allowing me to discern the genius's name by noticing a pattern in the name of the embedded url. Just like Sesame Street's "One of these things is not like the others" game, audience participation turned this article from a whoa :( to a wow :D. I give it two hearty thumbs up!
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
Not necessarily. He might just be an idiot.
hard core geek-ware
This reminds me of that movie, you know? The one about that guy that did stuff?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
He didn't die from a "mystery illness", he died from tuberculosis (or as it was called back then, the consumption).
My digital rights don't need management.
"A decade ago, a self-taught computer genius from Finland [...] There's more on the Finish computer guy here."
(I think you get the point)
Only the civil code is non-uniform. This deals with marriage, divorce and inheritance, for instance.
A murder is a criminal case, and it is uniformly treated in the Indian Penal Code, irrespective of the usual divisions.
I would like to encrypt my credit card information for sending it over the Internet. Can someone *please* help me use this article to do that? I mean, where do I plug in the credit card number? Does it matter that mine doesn't end in "4" or "9"? Do I need the CCV?
"Ramanujan had always lived in a tropical climate and had his mother (later his wife) to cook for him: now he faced the English winter, and he had to do all his own cooking to adhere to his caste's strict dietary rules." Wow.. I really think they could have worded that better.
The Pi symbol /. uses for Math articles is very appropriate in this case, because Ramanujan also came up with a formula for the numerical representation of Pi
That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the article text, and I was kind of disappointed it wasn't about that particular aspect of Ramanujan.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
That's not the point. He is a person. He did something important. He has a name. He is NOT "the Indian math guy".
Ramanujan was one of the greatest mathematical geniuses of the 20th century. there are some people on./ who could do with some basic education.
I think he should be called a "Native American", or more specifically, his tribe, cherokee, apache, or iroquis.
But Indian? Welcome to 1875, Mr. Racist.
When I was a PhD math student, I often annoyed professors by asking them about real-world applications, and usually got vague answers like the one quoted.
Well, then don't go to the Pure Math department when you're asking questions about Applied Math! Don't go to the C&O department, and ask about Statistics, and don't go the Actuary Science department, and ask about Accounting! Yes, they're all within the Math Faculty, but you have to pick your department correctly, or you won't get the answers you want! Sheesh! You wouldn't go to a French professor, and get all annoyed that they didn't speak ancient greek, would you? They're in the Arts Faculty, but Ancient Greek belongs to the Classical Studies department, and French belongs to Romance Languages department.
There is a lot of mathematics out there with real world applications: modeling for physics and engineering, non-linear statistical methods for stock market analysis, all sorts of new crypographic methods and applications, graphical rendering engines; tons of stuff.
Typically, pure math is far in advance of real-world applications: most of the mathematics we use today had no "real world" application when it was first concieved of. Field theory was considered "useless" when it was created, but it forms the heart of both modern cryptography, and of error correcting codes. These two, in turn, have become crucial to the success of our banking and telecommunications industries.
New insights into eliptic curves are yielding a new form of cryptography; the discrete logarithm problem forms the basis of another. Ten years ago, quantum computing was a matter of purely speculative mathematics; today, it exists as an experimental science.
Imaginary numbers were so named because no one figured they had real world uses: today, they're taught as a practical matter for electrical engineers to use in their electronics calculations. Taylor series approximations take the guesswork out of sin and cosine calculations, polynomial interpolation techniques allows computation of a "curve of best fit" for arbitrary scientific data, and every modern engineer is now aquainted with Fourier's transform. Some of Benoit Mandlebrot's notions about fractals were used to create JPEG compression, in common use on the Internet. Wavelet theory is currently being developed to attempt to improve on current methods.
Math is pushing ahead very fast; the real reason you don't usually see it is because it's often right at the heart of things; deep inside our hashing algorithms, hidden in a cryptography library, working behind the scenes as the statistical underpinnings of a successful greylist design that keeps spam away. It's in the boolean algebras that were used to design an efficient circuit layout, and in the iterative methods used to compute a new airfoil design. It's everywhere.
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AC
Excuse me for not being a Linus fanboy, but Linus is NOT in the same league as Einstein. I'm surprised they're mentioned in the same sentence. When Linus dies, nobody will be falling over themselves to dissect his brain.
Any slashdot cyrpto gurus want to take a stab as to what implications this has for cryptogrphy and factoring large numbers?
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But when your number's up...
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Elvis is a good example of the strange things people will do for a dead guy. (Except, he's not really dead, right?)
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.
Well, then don't go to the Pure Math department when you're asking questions about Applied Math!
The question to pure mathies might have been phrased: "What have the Applied Math people done with your past discoveries in this sub-field?" In the case of number theory and other discrete fields of study (pardon the pun), discoveries have so often led to something or other regarding cryptography or cryptanalysis or both.
NOT in the same league as Einstein or Linus Torvalds
Funny that your parochial flamebait happens to be true. Ramanujan was definitively smarter than either of them.
Not to put down Big Al, but he only had a small armful of memorable discoveries spread over the decades of his career. OTOH, Ramanujan pumped out astonishingly brilliant stuff pretty much every day of his sadly brief adult life.
I could not agree more.
Mathematics at this level, in my naive opinion, is almost an art form, in that it uses unscientific methods to reach scientifically provable results. And in so doing, it reveals volumes about the method of knowledge.
I've spent countless hours playing with calculators watching for patterns. I once worked at a job that left me sitting at a desk for hours with nothing to do but think, and playing with numbers never failed to fill the time with amusing discoveries of how numbers could produce unexpected symmetries and results.
While I did quite well in prep school in mathematics, my love for mathematical symmetry morphed to the study of music theory in college (the two are not as dissimilar as most would think).
There are beauties to be found in numbers, in pure mathematics. It is nothing short of the study of the world around us as expressed in purely intellectual form. At the highest level, I would not be surprised if the observations turn inward toward the observer, if the discoveries tell us more about how intellect works as it understands quantization than about the actual numbers at play.
This "Indian math guy" would have been one hell of a guy to have dinner with. What I'd do to be inside his mind for just a short time!
Don't mock or belittle that which you don't understand. To do so often reveals more about yourself than you probably want revealed.
But if we use negative integers, 1729 gets trumped by 0, since x^3 + (-x)^3 = 0 for all integers.
As a math graduate student student I was invited to watch the presentations of the people applying for a graduate faculty position at the university. I was only able to make it to one of the presentations, but it was an unforgetable experience for me.
The applicant gave a very interesting presentation. I got lost during the first 5 minutes when he was still giving background, but it was still interesting. His presentation was on - assuming that I remember any of the very little that I may have understood - some specific behaviors of the infinite boundaries of n-dimensional manifolds.
The best part was when he said, "In case you think that this is just esoteric and 'out there,' I want you to know that this stuff has real applications in topology."
There were about 6 other grad students and 15 math faculty there and I think I was the only one to notice how funny that was, so I'm sorry if you don't get the joke.
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.
From the writeup I know know that "some Indian math guy" did something about "how numbers can be created by adding other numbers".
News for nerds indeed. The man is one of the most well-known mathematicians there is (as much as a mathematician can be well known). The guy even has a number named after him, 1729.
That article also has a lot of fun Futurama references too.
His name is in the first sentence.
I just moused over, and it's in the freaking URL.
The best general reading about applied math in the context of Ramanujan's work and life are in G.H. Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology and Robert Kanigel's The Man Who Knew Infinity. Both are excellent reads for non mathematicians.
India has a very long history of mathematics. eg. Pythagoras theorom was proven in India long before Pythagoras was even born.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
This sounds like it was posted by a Seventeen reader. A new low for /.
That said, my guess is that the poster had copied the URL of the story and couldn't remember how to spell Ramanujan, and just used some shorthand which came off as a slight where one wasn't intended. The myriad of inevitable offshoring jokes are much more offensive than the (correct if somewhat lame) description of Ramanujan as an "Indian math guy."
Dude, I think I can see my house from here.
While I did quite well in prep school in mathematics, my love for mathematical symmetry morphed to the study of music theory in college (the two are not as dissimilar as most would think).
That's certainly true.
How's this for a strange coincidence.
It would be tough to name the greatest mathematician, or the greatest composer of all time since there is a great deal of subjectivity to that.
However, I believe that it's pretty generally accepted that the greatest musical dynasty was the Bach family and the greatest mathematical dynasty was the Bernoulli family.
There were at least 3 generations of some of the greats in their respective fields.
They lived at the same time, and within 100 miles of each other.
I'm not saying it means anything, but it truly amazed me the first time I learned about it.
Not to put down Big Al, but he only had a small armful of memorable discoveries spread over the decades of his career.
You are kidding, right? Sure, as Einstein grew older, he produced less and less, but here's what he did in 1905 alone:
"A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions" (Einstein's doctoral dissertation) (30 April 1905)
Buchdruckerei K. J. Wyss, Bern, 1906.
Also: Annalen der Physik, 19(1906), pp. 289-305.
This is Einstein's doctoral dissertation, submitted after much delay to the University of Zurich. In it he uses available physical data on the diffusion of sugar in solution and the effect of dissolved sugar on the solution's viscosity to determine the size of sugar molecules and Avogadro's number. The analysis makes the kinetic theory of heat more definite, in so far as it provides a measure of the real size of molecules, so that they cannot be dismissed as easily as useful fictions. It is the least impressive of Einstein's work of 1905 although, curiously, the most cited.
"On the motion of small particles suspended in liquids at rest required by the molecular-kinetic theory of heat." (Brownian motion paper) (May 1905; received 11 May 1905)
Annalen der Physik, 17(1905), pp. 549-560.
In this paper Einstein reports that the kinetic theory of heat predicts that small particles suspended in water must execute a random motion visible under the microscope. He suspects this motion is Brownian motion but has insufficient data to affirm it. The prediction is a powerful test of the truth of the kinetic theory of heat. A failure to observe the effect would refute the theory. If it is seen and measured, it provides a way to estimate Avogadro's number. The domain in which the effect is observed is one in which the second law of thermodynamics no longer holds, a disturbing result for the energeticists of the time.
"On the electrodynamics of moving bodies" (special relativity) (June 1905; received 30 June 1905)
Annalen der Physik, 17(1905), pp. 891-921.
Einstein develops the special theory of relativity in this paper. His concern, as he makes clear in the introduction, is that then current electrodynamics harbors a state of rest, the ether state of rest, and the theory gives very different accounts of electrodynamic processes at rest or moving in the ether. But experiments in electrodynamics and optic have provided no way to determine which is the ether state of rest of all inertial state of motion. Einstein shows that Maxwell-Lorentz electrodynamics has in fact always obeyed a principle of relativity of inertial motion. We just failed to notice it since we tacitly thought that space and time had Newtonian properties, not those of special relativity.
"Does the inertia of a body depend on its energy content?" (E=mc2) (September 1905; received 27 September 1905) Annalen der Physik, 18(1905), pp. 639-41.
Written as a brief follow-up to the special relativity paper, this short note derives the inertial of energy: all energy E also has an inertia E/c2.
"On a heuristic viewpoint concerning the production and transformation of light." (light quantum/photoelectric effect paper) (17 March 1905)
Annalen der Physik, 17(1905), pp. 132-148.
While the victory in the 19th century of the electromagnetic wave theory of light over Newton's corpuscle view is undeniable, Einstein shows that its success is incomplete. The theory gives incorrect results for the analysis of heat radiation. He looks at the thermodynamic properties of high frequency heat radiation and finds that this radiation behaves just like a collection of many spatially localized units ("quanta") of energy of magnitude hf (h=Planck's constant, f=frequency). He proceeds to show how this quantum view of light makes sense of several experiments in electrodynamics and optics, the best know being the photoelectric effect. He then described the paper as "revolutionary."
And these were on wildly different apsects of physics -- Brownian motion, Relativity, Statistical Mechanics, Photoele
"That's not even wrong..." -- Wolfgang Pauli
A wonderful biography of Ramanujan is, "The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan", by Robert Kanigel
It's really interesting. Ramanujan was doing all this brilliant number theory on his own in India, and he decided to start sending his ideas around. He contacted several brilliant mathematicians, none of whom could figure out what he was talking about, largely because Ramanujan had some peculiar ways of expressing things. Finally Ramanujan contacted G. H. Hardy (at Cambridge), who saw his potential. Hardy invited Ramanujan to come to Cambridge right away, but couldn't get him to come because Ramanujan was a devout Hindu, and felt that he would be permanently "polluted" were he to leave India. Eventually, Ramanujan came to an agreement with his mother and went to spend time with Hardy, who spent a great deal of time helping Ramanujan convert his raw ideas into a more traditional, presentable form for maths journals. Ramanujan had a tough time in Cambridge, because he really didn't fit in. Eventually, he became very sick (tuberculosis, I think), and died. My understanding is that serious mathematicians are continuing to gather many new ideas in number theory from Ramanujan's notebooks, which are published by Springer-Verlag.
If you watch TV news, you know less about the world than if you just drank gin straight from the bottle.
By the same token, "German guess guy" is Heisenberg, "Italian nuke guy" is Fermi and "Slashdot condescension guy" is whoever bespoke "Indian math guy," referring to Ramanujan. Mathematics, made of pure thought, advances meteorically faster than the dull material world, let alone the moral, spiritual or (shall we call a spade a spade?) ethological world of semi-sentient apes and slash dotters. Ramanujan lived in a future virtually all of us cannot even imagine, and his name is revered, not because we understand him, but because he thought the future beautiful.
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Thanks for the FUD, asshat. Ramanujan died of tuberculosis.
Einstein was very smart.
I wouldn't want to put him down.
But I agree that Ramanujan was a phenomenon. He was so completely different from any of his contemporary mathematicians that there is really no comparison.
He was discovered by the west when he sent a manuscript to Hardy, a famous English mathematician. Hardy almost discarded it, since much of it was stuff he had seen before (though Ramanujan had rediscovered it independently), but it also contained 120 thereoms no one but Ramanujan had ever seen before.
Later, when he came to England, Ramanujan filled notebooks with thousands of theorems, though not, apparently with proofs. I think proving Ramanujan's thereoms is still a major occupation of academia.
Interestingly, there is a similar story involving Einstein. Bose, who was an unknown Indian physics instructor, sent an unsolicited manuscript to Einstein which eventually led to the theory of Bose statistics, or Bose-Einstein statistics and the Bose condensate.
Crackpots from all over the world were sending Einstein manuscripts, and Bose's manuscript looked a lot like one of these. But Einstein read it anyway, and saw that Bose's ideas had merit. Ultimately, it seemed that Bose only had the one really good idea in him, and after collaborating with Einstein on the one paper, he went back to India and continued teaching. Apparently he was an especially good teacher.
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Now start to get your head around this... what if numbers are just, well, *human* constructs. As hard as that is to get your head around, think how easily that little concept completely changes your view of things.
If numbers are human constructs and nothing "inherant" in the universe, then the patterns that we find are not that unexpected. Humans are pattern hunting machines.
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
I assume these numbers are added to numbers to create (astonishingly) numbers. And this operation can even be applied to all prime numbers! This is really mindbending and puzzling and probably innovative too. Is this method patented yet? Hey, i got a great idea: let's use the "+" sign for this operation, something like "+(number1,number2)", i think i'll patent that.
Maybe that anonymous reader should've freed himself from the mindbended state briefly and taken the few extra seconds to specify "numbers" for the benefit of the readers.
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Not to put down Big Al, but he only had a small armful of memorable discoveries spread over the decades of his career.
;)
Only on Slashdot would there be a dude who argues that _Einstein's_ number of discoveries was mediocre
Relative to other geniuses, of course... *ow!*
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"Yeah well there's a lot of stuff that should be, but isn't"
What's up with that? So they only have names when they're American scientists? Do you know how much Srinivasa Ramanujam contributed to math??? Just because YOU don't know them does NOT make them any less deserving of the respect they SHOULD get from everyone for their contribution to the field!! Or are you just another one of those hicks who respects people based on their nationality and on rubbish like "if i don't know them, they're not worth knowing"?
Have some decency. Recognize genius and respect it. What have you accomplished? Even 1/10th of what any respected scientist has? Don't you expect people to call you by your name and not "hey you"? Why not give the same respect to others?
I'm also surprised that the Slashdot editors let this story be published without correcting it!! What, are story submissions now governed by a perl script?
RANT OFF.
Find a job you like and you will never work a day in your life.
If you took number theory or some high level mathematics courses and never heard about Srinivasa Ramanujan it would be akin to studying relativistic physics and never hearing about Albert Einstein .
Most people probably heard about Ramanujan recently from the movie "Good Will Hunting". Where they refer to Ramanujan by name several time during the movie, although they totally butchered his name and made me cringe every time they said it. The movie is based on a Ramanujan type character, in Hollywood fashion though. Where a young good looking confidant and outgoing Matt Damon with the physique of a construction worker plays the math genius. Ramanujan was shy, introvert, awkward and not in the best physical health.
Even if Bose had only one good idea, he still did better than most of us. Plus a good teacher, especially in the 'hard' subjects, isn't to be sneered at eigther. Not that you seemed to be putting him down.
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Mir Sultan Khan arrived in England in 1929 as manservant to an Indian Maharaja, and immediately took the European chess world by storm (the Wikipedia article compares him to Morphy). He convincingly defeated all the great players of that era -- Alekhine, Capablanca, Euwe, Rubenstein, more, but when the American master Reuben Fine visited the maharaja's digs in London, Khan was the waiter who served the meal. In 1933, the maharaja left England and Khan was taken back to India: no more tournament chess for him.
His story is not the same as the story of Blind Tom, in spite of cetain similarities. There is no indication that Khan's owner/employer exploited those remarkable talents, and the talents were in fact measurably remarkable. In the case of Blind Tom, one is tempted to think of S. Johnson's remark: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." [from Boswell's Life of Johnson]
Wikipedia has its own version of the blind slave pianist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Tom
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OK, so I'm an idiot in maths, and I've read about prime numbers and cryptography and how predicting prime numbers can help crack encrypted material, so is this development of any significance with cryptography?
"I'm also surprised that the Slashdot editors let this story be published without correcting it!! What, are story submissions now governed by a perl script?"
Unlikely.
I, for one, have considerable confidence that a fairly simple perl script could at least competently produce basic English spelling and grammar.
"What a complete joke of a post, rape as a punishment? What are you waffling about? Are you so blind that you believe everything you hear on TV?"
What does TV have to do with this? I read this from Pakistani sources. Even the Pakistani "patriot" who posted the parent item knows about it.
"Obviously, there is a war going on with the Muslims right now, obviously, negative propaganda about them will be encouraged."
"Propaganda" defined by you as information you don't like and would want to keep secret.
"I remember studying British Propaganda about the Germans in World War 2"
And I remember studying the Crimean war. But what does either entirely irrelevant situation have to do with anything? Oh wait. Your example is connected a little: like WW2 Germany, Pakistan is governed by a military dictatorship that has a foreign policy goal of exterminating Jews (they do not recognize the rights of Israelis to exist). It is not anywhere near as bad as Nazi Germany, but it is rather antisemitic.
"Not to mention the fake Iraqis overturning incubators"
What were these fake Iraqis really, once you took their "Iraqi costumes" off. Were they Bildeburger agitprop agents? Or was it Mossad guys?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.