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Genius often finds itself rejected when it fails to fit into the mold designed for ordinary people. Einstein, for example, was at first denied admission to the prestigious Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zurich, because he failed the nonscience portion of the entrance examination. Thomas Edison’s teachers told him that he was too stupid to learn anything, and he was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough. Ramanujan was in good company.
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Ono, K., Aczel, A.D. (2016). Purgatory. In: My Search for Ramanujan. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25568-2_10
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