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Awesome Mathematician, One of my personal heroes. The only thing that's always gotten me: How do you pronounce it?
Can someone through out a phonetic spelling for me?
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who can use induction.
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I'm pretty sure that it's mostly phoenetic already, but with the u pronounced "oo".
Not certain though.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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Where do we place the emphasis?
ra MAN u jan
or
RA man u jan
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who can use induction.
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I pronounce it RAManOOjan.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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I pronounce it rah-mah-NOO-jan.
Perhaps someone from India could guide us ... (ganesh) ... ?
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
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ganesh is from india?
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
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Oh yes, I am.
It is pronounced
Raamanujan.
The emphasis is on Raama.
He was a great mathematician.
On a hospital bed, prof. Hardy came to meet him.
Unsure about how to start the conversation, he said,
My taxi cab number was 1729, a rather uninteresting number.
Ramanujam replied
"No Hardy! No Hardy!
It is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways"
How correct he was:- 1729 is the sum of 10 cube and 9 cube. and also of 12 cube and 1 cube
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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Hmmm I just watched Good Will Hunting, a film about an unsuspecting genius who is discovered by a math professor. It's interesting how the math professor draws parallels to the great Ramanujan. Good film.
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