I changed it to avoid the Wrath o' Russ. The person in it is Srinivasa Ramanujan Ayingar, a largely self-taught Indian mathematician of the early 20th century. He made some important contributions to number theory, and I feel a slight connection to him for the following reason. in August 2002, I sent a few ideas of mine to a mathematical journal (for you Cult of Maths types--www.geocities.com/hagenmaths/sumsofsquares.pdf and www.geocities.com/hagenmaths/twoprob01.pdf), and an editor kindly replied that while my theorems were correct and interesting, they had been thought of before by Euler, Riemann, and Ramanujan. I had heard of the first two, but not of Ramanujan. When I looked at some of his work, I found it to be extremely beautiful, as best as I can recognize such beauty.
I hear there's a good biography out about him...any ideas about what it is?
Originally posted by royalchickenif you are thinking along the lines of those three, you are in some pretty awesome company! perhaps you can work out a calculus of generalised chess or something...?🙂
I changed it to avoid the Wrath o' Russ. The person in it is Srinivasa Ramanujan Ayingar, a largely self-taught Indian mathematician of the early 20th century. He made some important contributions to number theory, and I feel a slight connection to him for the following reason. in August 2002, I sent a few ideas of mine to a mathematical journal (fo ...[text shortened]... ize such beauty.
I hear there's a good biography out about him...any ideas about what it is?
Originally posted by dfm65Thank you sir 😀! I don't know about the chess: I wrote up an algorithm (which the very clever goldfish1 is very cleverly implementing in software form) for playing chess, but of course better ones are much more common and I can't een begin to conceive of a general method (something graph-theoretical...?). I'd have to know what constitutes a good move and what constitues a bad 'un. I just don't know about that kind of thing...😞
if you are thinking along the lines of those three, you are in some pretty awesome company! perhaps you can work out a calculus of generalised chess or something...?🙂
Originally posted by royalchickeni agree that Ramanujan was a pretty awesome mathematician, but on what grounds do you claim him as a freethinker? (i assume your adoption of his image for your avatar is tantamount to such a claim). perhaps he had very dogmatic, narrow minded views about lots of things. i don't know. but perhaps he did. maybe you should check into it when you locate that biography you're looking for😉
I changed it to avoid the Wrath o' Russ. The person in it is Srinivasa Ramanujan Ayingar, a largely self-taught Indian mathematician of the early 20th century. He made some important contributions to number theory, and I feel a slig ...[text shortened]... re's a good biography out about him...any ideas about what it is?