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Stormborn posted:
ronan posted:
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

Listen to the hardy lectures dummy...plus the guy narrating his documentary....a scholar working on the notebooks mentioned the same. Ramanujan's formal training until Hardy and Littlewood was a textbook of formulas and theorems as I stated above. He also had the benefit of local mathematicians who advised he contact Hardy at Cambridge when they were no longer able to help him

 And this is about memorization simply for memorization. What hell good is the quadratic formula or the sum rule if you do not know what it means. It is like the McDonald register with icons or excel functions with no understanding of the underlying functions

what does all this have to do with memorizing tables idiot?

ALL of Ramanujan's distinguished contemporaries at Cambridge had to learn the x-times tables starting out

shut yuh meandering, useless ass

FM
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