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Ramanujian's Deathbed Problem Cracked
Jake's Mom sends word of the serendipitous solution to a decades-old mathematical mystery. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin have unraveled a major number theory puzzle left at the death of one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians, Srinivasa Ramanujan. From the press release: "Mathematicians have finally laid to rest the legendary mystery surrounding an elusive group of numerical expressions known as the 'mock theta functions.' Number theorists have struggled to understand the functions ever since... Ramanujan first alluded to them in a letter written [to G. H. Hardy] on his deathbed, in 1920. Now, using mathematical techniques that emerged well after Ramanujan's death, two number theorists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have pieced together an explanatory framework that for the first time illustrates what mock theta functions are, and exactly how to derive them."
Seems like a great guy. Maybe we should start outsourcing mathematics.
3) Become really, really famous.
I propose:
3) Become really, really famous while at the same time guaranteeing you will never ever have sex with a conscious human female.
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munc4es the most taken over by BSDI [nero-online.org] are a pathetic
It's sad to think that geniuses may languish among the world's millions of underprivileged children who lack access to education.
Or what passes for education in parts of the world where people supposedly know, and can afford, better... like the U.S..
Hey, the teachers' unions think education in the U.S. is just fine. It adequately prepares you for a career of bitter, unhelpful customer support, lifelong Democrat* voter, and dedicated fan of reality TV.
* I'm not saying all dumb people are Democrats, or all Democrats are stupid, just that the education system has a strong tendency to indoctrinate those values. Plenty of ignorant people vote lockstep Republican too, but that's despite the U.S. education system, not because of it.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.