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#1 2007-11-04 07:37:04

bossk171
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Ramanujan

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?


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#2 2007-11-04 07:59:02

mathsyperson
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Re: Ramanujan

I'm pretty sure that it's mostly phoenetic already, but with the u pronounced "oo".
Not certain though.


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It wanted to be normal.

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#3 2007-11-04 08:57:08

bossk171
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Re: Ramanujan

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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#4 2007-11-04 09:34:38

mathsyperson
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Re: Ramanujan

I pronounce it RAManOOjan.


Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.

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#5 2007-11-04 12:30:58

MathsIsFun
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Re: Ramanujan

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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#6 2007-11-04 13:01:35

mikau
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Re: Ramanujan

ganesh is from india? faint


A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.

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#7 2007-11-04 23:29:27

Jai Ganesh
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Re: Ramanujan

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


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#8 2007-11-05 01:36:43

Identity
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Re: Ramanujan

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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