Ramanujan's Deathbed Conjecture Finally Proven

jomama717 writes "Another chapter in the fascinating life of Srinivasa Ramanujan appears to be complete: 'While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved. Now 100 years later, researchers say they've proved he was right. "We've solved the problems from his last mysterious letters. For people who work in this area of math, the problem has been open for 90 years," Emory University mathematician Ken Ono said. Ramanujan, a self-taught mathematician born in a rural village in South India, spent so much time thinking about math that he flunked out of college in India twice, Ono said.'"

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Re:Flunked out of college twice

[PPH]

I wonder what would happen if US colleges (or even earlier in our educational system) let students have free reign, and really specialize.

We'd have a bumper crop of PhDs in Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Re:Died at 33

[davester666]

Yes, they help minimize passing on the Math gene to the next generation.

Re:Guy was so smart it's scary.

[JustOK]

noodles?

Best moments of life

[Anonymous Coward]

I have to say that some of the best moments of my life were calculating the area under the curve by tactile measurement.