Stormborn posted:One of the things that hampered Ramanujan the great Indian mathematician was that he learned the fundamentals of mathematics from a book of used to teach British high school boys. The book was like the one by Hardy and Littlewood, we used in primary and high school on pure math that make you solve problems very easily and encouraged the cramming of theorems. The problem for Ramanujan was he never expanded he theorems and his work ended up cryptic.. His notebooks are still being deciphered because at the higher levels his habit of writing out equations without any build up to how they were derived it became as code. He always got the answer right but others trying to understand and generalize his work has to hard at breaking down his ideas. Given he was an extraordinary genius means a century has gone by and the world is still to come to grips with his greatness and discoveries.
the above whole is contradictory gibberish
Ramanujan was actually "hampered" by not having any formal training in 19th-20th century level higher mathematics
waderass does THAT have to do with learning x-times tables?
smfh