Thursday, March 8, 2018

Ramanujan and I

I know quadratic equations. But higher order? No. Ramanujan knew.
I know simple calculus. Higher calculus? No. Ramanujan knew.
I know simple geometry. But higher geometry? No. Ramanujan knew.
Ramanujan was highly self learnt and practised a lot. He was a genius too.
Ramanujan would come up with numbers and expressions all of a sudden. And valid expressions too. Not error prone. He was accurate.
At Cambridge university he was encouraged for proofs.
Why  did he believe in goddess of Namakkal and not one of the deities of Kumbakonam?
Possibly his mother was from Namakkal region. His father from Kumbakonam.
He worked on numbers.  And number theories.
And that's what Indians can do. And we'll do numbers and their theories better. That's the challenge.


6 comments:

  1. Ramanujan actually wanted a better job. He thought his mathematical theories will act as a barter.
    This is a common psychology of people who think that certain quality will get certain other thing.
    Professor Hardy was an Englishman who faced competition from French and German mathematicians.
    When he saw the letter from Ramanujan he found many things of intuitions. Not just the exact integer claim which is only incorrect after 50 places or so.
    During those times they probably thought it would be effective weapon in countering French and Germans !!

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  2. Let me say this. Two decimal places of constants is no insult. 10 into 10 fingers is 100.
    It is human.

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  3. Ramanujan was possibly disturbed by Madhava of Sangamagrama.

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  4. Fools why don't you read me? Ramanujan will ask from heaven?
    TIFR is just enabling that sir?
    That ruins my job prospect of being a security man at Ramanujan museum.

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  5. Vedas on one day. Carnatic music the other.
    Prayers every day.
    Maths every now and then.
    Food no issue.
    What a vision?
    Stupidity.

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  6. Better explanations needed for complex numbers. 1 + i × 1 or 2 + i × 2 are from my side.
    Wiley has 2 + i × 3.

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