Mathematicians from a US university have solved a cryptic puzzle that renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan claimed came to him in his dreams on his deathbed. He thought these patterns were revealed to him by the god



Srinivasa Ramanujan's cryptic theory proved right



LONDON: Mathematicians from a US university have solved a cryptic puzzle that renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan claimed came to him in his dreams on his deathbed.
While on his death-bed in 1920, Ramanujan wrote a letter to his mentor, British mathematician G H Hardy, outlining several new mathematical functions never before heard of, along with a hunch about how they worked, the Daily Mail said.
Now, researchers say they have proved Ramanujan was right, and that the formula could explain the behaviour of black holes. "We've solved the problems from his last mysterious letters," Ken Ono, a mathematician from Emory University in Georgia, US, said.
Ono said Ramanujan spent so much time thinking about math that he flunked out of college in India twice. A devout Hindu, he thought these patterns were revealed to him by the goddess Namagiri. However, no one at the time understood what he was talking about.
"It wasn't until 2002, through the work of Sander Zwegers, that we had a description of the Ramanujan functions that Ramanujan was writing about in 1920," Ono said. With colleagues, Ono drew on modern mathematical tools that had not been developed before Ramanujan's death to prove that his theory was correct.
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Deathbed theory dreamt by an Indian maths genius is finally proved correct - almost 100 years after he died


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Has anyone considered how Issac Newton, without the use of a calculator, could work out the position of the planets on any given day and that his formulae has been used to launch satellites to the moon long after he lived! He was responsible for many great revelations and so was Leonardo Da Vinci who lived even earlier.... Natural geniuses are few and far between and we should welcome them..... much more than the 2 bit celebs and attention seeking politicians who think they know more than us!


"However, no one at the time understood what Ramanujan was talking about." - Yup, neither do I, and I have a Maths "A" level too. Saying that is a bit like saying to an Olympic sprinter "Hey, I can walk too, y'know!"
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One wonders why these absolute geniuses are not gifted with a long life. The list is long, Mozart, Chopin..... - SP, Hyderabad, 29/12/2012 0:26 ------------- I've always found it a shame that so many who deserve to live end up dying early, while trash that deserve to die sometimes live a long life. Cruel reality.
If any God or Goddess is real, then mathematics is the language of the Gods. Only a few rare humans are blessed enough to understand the Divine Language known as mathematics.
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So much we don't know, so many genius born with superior knowledge of a much far advanced system, than ours...Nicola Tesla was another far advanced misunderstood soul, who was a ground breaking genius born way before his time...
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Just goes to prove that people can come up with ideas for everything without a degree from a university, governments please note.
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His story is akin to an Indian servant who followed his master to Britain and bang...beaten the reigning world chess champion at the time, Capablanca. Many conjectures in mathematics are very hard to prove, quite a few of them are still unsolved. Fermat's last theorem took 300+ years to prove. This is due to leading mathematicians usually have great insights, but proving the conjectures is a different beast altogether. Euler, the most prolific mathematician in history avoid this enterprise since perhaps either he will fail or it will take too much of his time. What's interesting is that many of these people are religious (Ramanujan, Euler, Descartes, etc), funny how things have changed.

I dont get why so many people respond to the spiritual bit negatively. Neither science nor religion can explain everything but it isn't unusual for scientists to believe because they realize they can only explain some things 'what is it that breathes fire into the equations' that sort of sentiment. Whether you believe in god, gods, ancient aliens or the big bang there still remains the question why something instead of nothing? God or the big bang just adds another level in the causal chain it does solve the mystery.

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