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We are now going to look at more of Ramanujan’s equations. I know that for some of you, the prospect of facing additional equations causes your heart to palpitate, and your palms to sweat. “Why,” you say, “does he have to use more of those darn equations? Why can’t he just say it in ordinary words?”
But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine, if he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal; ...
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End Notes
Plato, The Dialogues of Plato, trans. B. Jowett (New York: Random House, 1937), Timaeus, p. 66.
Euclid, Elements, Book V (New York: Dover Publications, 1956), p. 139.
The majority of the following Ramanujan equations have been taken from Bruce C. Berndt, Ramanujan’s Notebooks, Vol. I & II (New York: Springer Verlag, 1985).
Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity, p. 247.
David Wells, Curious and Interesting Numbers (London: Penguin Books, 1986), p. 100.
Konrad Knopp, Theory and Application of Infinite Series (New York: Dover Publications, 1990), p. 548.
Ivars Peterson, Islands of Truth: A Mathematical Mystery Cruise (New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1990), p. 177.
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Clawson, C.C. (1996). Ramanujan’s Equations. In: Mathematical Mysteries. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6080-1_12
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