Ramanujan
It’s Time for a Breakdown (of Numbers)
Now it’s time for a breakdown… (cue En Vogue’s My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)) In particular, a breakdown of numbers!
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Ramanujan
Ramanujan’s Early Work on Continued Fractions
“I had never seen anything in the least like [it] before” — G.H. Hardy On or about the 31st of January 1913, mathematician G.H. Hardy (1877-1947) of Trinity College at Cambridge University received a parcel of papers from Madras, India. The package included a cover letter where a young
Infinity
The Paradox of Infinity
As I finished reading The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, perhaps what stood out the most was the phrase, “Some infinities are bigger…
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Ramanujan’s First Letter to G.H. Hardy (1913)
On or about the 31st of January 1913, mathematician G.H. Hardy (1877-1947) of Trinity College at Cambridge University received a parcel of papers from Madras, India which included a cover letter from an aspiring young Indian mathematician by the name of Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920).
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The Hardy-Ramanujan Number
The two different ways 1729 is expressible as the sum of two cubes are 1³ + 12³ and 9³ + 10³. The number has since become known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number, the second so-called “taxicab number”
Mathematics
The Ramanujan Summation: 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ + ∞ = -1/12?
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