Re: Ramanujan

From: Dave Seaman (dseaman_at_no.such.host)
Date: 01/14/05 

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:20:25 +0000 (UTC)

On 14 Jan 2005 21:53:23 +0100, Torkel Franzen wrote:
> bryant_j_j@yahoo.com writes:

>> since it was not mainstream maths he must've
>> initially thought the guy to be some sort of cranck.

> No he didn't. He says nobody could have made up those formulas.

But perhaps it took a Hardy to recognize that fact. Apparently Ramanujan had
attempted to communicate with some other mathematicians and had received no
reply. 

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