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#1 2007-02-27 09:18:49
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Ramanujan's "Mock Theta Functions" solved
One for the Number Theorists: http://www.news.wisc.edu/13497.html
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#2 2007-02-27 10:08:21
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Re: Ramanujan's "Mock Theta Functions" solved
Man, this dude really was on a completely different plane of existance to everybody else. I'm reading the wikipedia article, and it makes no sense to my mortal brain.
Nice find
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#3 2007-02-27 12:31:09
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Re: Ramanujan's "Mock Theta Functions" solved
Ramanujan is my favorite mathematician second to Euler. His works are unbelievable, the man was pure talent. I'm going to try to find the 3 papers mentioned in that article. I'll post them here if I can.
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#4 2007-02-27 13:30:19
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Re: Ramanujan's "Mock Theta Functions" solved
Haha, the topic from the thread list reads
Ramanujan's "Mock Theta Functions" solved by MathsIsFun
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#5 2007-03-01 00:40:23
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Re: Ramanujan's "Mock Theta Functions" solved
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" and it makes no sense to my mortal brain. "
Truth is Truth is Wonder full!...............................................................................................
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#6 2007-03-01 05:28:51
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Re: Ramanujan's "Mock Theta Functions" solved
Ramanujan is my favorite mathematician second to Euler. His works are unbelievable, the man was pure talent. I'm going to try to find the 3 papers mentioned in that article. I'll post them here if I can.
Whats crazy is he died at 32. I believe Riemann also died at about that age. Imagine what these people could have done if they'd lived for 70 to 100 years!
The article says it has applications to physics, chemistry and many other areas, but does anyone know precisly what it allows us to do?
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
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#7 2007-03-01 07:55:36
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Re: Ramanujan's "Mock Theta Functions" solved
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" and it makes no sense to my mortal brain. "
Truth is Truth is Wonder full!...............................................................................................
You thougth I wasn't mortal?
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#8 2007-03-01 08:40:52
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Re: Ramanujan's "Mock Theta Functions" solved
To know everything in Mathematics would be like trying to know everyone in Manhattan. But when you get a story like this one, you can appreciate it from the outside.
Haha, the topic from the thread list reads
Ramanujan's "Mock Theta Functions" solved by MathsIsFun
Ooops! Something I could only dream about.
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#9 2007-03-06 00:54:13
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Re: Ramanujan's "Mock Theta Functions" solved
Quot:
" You thougth I wasn't mortal? "
A.R.B
More like mortality!
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