[HN Gopher] Ramanujan's Lost Notebook
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Ramanujan's Lost Notebook
Author : benbreen
Score : 91 points
Date : 2024-04-15 19:54 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| Der_Einzige wrote:
| I'm an atheist, but when Ramanujan claims to derive all of their
| formulas from god, I ask how we can make it easier for them to
| listen to god, rather than feel the urge to argue against them.
| FieryTransition wrote:
| If you meet him, and he thought discussing god was interesting,
| would you then do it? If he wanted to discuss your faith in
| god, would you do it then?
| cassepipe wrote:
| Discussing is always interesting but I would probably
| interpret it as him not being able to explain his own
| abilities like some people just "see" good chess moves or
| just "know" that there are actually 48 matches on that floor
| mistermann wrote:
| I would wonder what the truth of the matter is, but each to
| their own, the unknown is _not popular /pleasant_.
| methinksstuff wrote:
| If you look the origin of the word genius I think there is a
| good parallel as thinking that your own genius is an external
| spiritual entity whispering you solutions
| vjerancrnjak wrote:
| I feel like his statements on god are very similar to this one:
|
| > Simon P. Norton, an expert on the properties of the monster
| group, is quoted as saying, "I can explain what Monstrous
| Moonshine is in one sentence, it is the voice of God."
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_group#Moonshine
| fuzztester wrote:
| Solid.
|
| Pun intended.
| fuzztester wrote:
| Goddess also, actually.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
|
| Check section "Personality and spiritual life".
| paulpauper wrote:
| Not expecting too many comments here. These formulas are
| complicated and it took a single person in the later 20th century
| to re-derive a good chunk of them.
| hi41 wrote:
| In the spirit of openness which is the hallmark of FOSS such as
| GNU/Linux, would this book be scanned and published for all to
| see? That would be great. Like FOSS, math too belongs to the
| world. I heard someone say that the university has not published
| many of his works. That would be sad. If published someone like
| Terrence Tao could write formal proofs for them like he and his
| team did some improvements for the work by Yitang Zhang.
| bigbillheck wrote:
| > If published someone like Terrence Tao could write formal
| proofs for them like he and his team did some improvements for
| the work by Yitang Zhang.
|
| From the second paragraph:
|
| > George Andrews and Bruce C. Berndt (2005, 2009, 2012, 2013,
| 2018) have published several books in which they give proofs
| for Ramanujan's formulas included in the notebook
| svat wrote:
| The notebook (like Ramanujan's three previously known
| notebooks) has already been published, in 5 volumes by Bruce
| Berndt and George Andrews, with extensive annotation (e.g. just
| flipping at random, in the third volume Chapter 6 is called
| "Theorems about the Partition Function on Pages 189 and 182",
| and occupies 24 pages, and indeed contains formal proofs etc).
| A raw scan of the notebook(s) is even available online:
| http://ramanujan.sirinudi.org
| Analemma_ wrote:
| Unfortunately the actual notebook links on that site appear
| broken
| interpjinx wrote:
| I expect future AI models to be like Ramanujan. Has tremendous
| intuition but can't accurately explain it's reasoning for
| arriving at a solution.
| ldjkfkdsjnv wrote:
| I almost feel like there is a random ramanujan posting generator.
| Every day it runs on a cron job, and with some probably something
| about him is posted. Much like the dunning krueger effect. Some
| topics arise with such consistent regularity. Almost makes you
| wonder what the reasoning is
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