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Ramanujan's Deathbed Conjecture Finally Proven

Posted by samzenpus on from the in-your-dreams dept.

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.'"

3 of 186 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Guy was so smart it's scary. by JonySuede · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    He was wrong about chastity and most probably god

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    Jehovah be praised, Oracle was not selected
  2. Re:Guy was so smart it's scary. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shut up Nassim you fucking crank.

  3. Re:It's a good thing he flunked. by amirishere · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Parent is correct. I am from Iran and studied Computer Eng here. 40% of the class now reside and work in foreign countries. We have people working in Google, Amazon, Ms, and Cisco.

    Another note, the prestiges subjects in Iran is engineering. So just as the brightest US kids study law, the bright kids in Iran "get" to study engineering. I am guessing the same phenomenon holds for India. This may be the reason why the Indians and the Iranians far out perform the US kids in STEM.

    One final note, yeah, I studied in CE in the top eng college in Iran. So although I may not be very socially knowledgeable, I probably kick the scientific hell out of the rest of y'all.