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National Mathematics Day 2022:श्रीनिवास रामानुजन ने अपनी 33 साल की उम्र में दुनिया को लगभग 3500 गणितीय सूत्र दिए

National Mathematics Day 2022:श्रीनिवास रामानुजन ने अपनी 33 साल की उम्र में दुनिया को लगभग 3500 गणितीय सूत्र दिए

National Mathematics Day 2022:  अपनी प्रतिभा को साबित करने के लिए कुछ ना कुछ करना पड़ता है । या यूं कहें के बहुत कुछ करना पड़ता है । किसी की प्रतिभा का लोहा दुनिया यूं ही नहीं मानती बल्कि उसे साबित करना पड़ता है । ऐसे ही एक प्रतिभाशाली व्यक्तित्व का आज जन्मदिन मनाया जा रहा है । इसे नेशनल मैथमेटिक्स डे (National Mathematics Day) के तौर पर मनाया जाता है । उपलब्धि किसी और को नहीं बल्कि भारत के लाल…

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Still adventuring, 5 years later

Margin Call is a 2011 movie largely centered on a single evening during which a young analyst at a financial firm learns, seemingly before anyone else, that things are about to go south real soon. The firm is unnamed, and the exact nature of the crisis is shrouded in Wall Street jargon, but it’s set in 2008. Make of that what you will.

And if you’ve already seen it, you probably already know the scene I want to talk about.

The focus of the screencap above is on Eric Dale, a guy at the firm who sensed that something was going wrong but was fired just before being able to put all the pieces together. This scene occurs late in the movie; it’s the first time in over an hour that Dale has been back on the screen, and we’re all waiting for what he’s going to say about the goings-on at the firm in the day since he left.

He says little, outside of this monologue:

Do you know I built a bridge once? [...] I was an engineer by trade.

It went from Dilles Bottom, Ohio to Moundsville, West Virginia. It spanned nine hundred and twelve feet above the Ohio River. Twelve thousand people used this thing a day. And it cut out thirty-five miles of driving each way between Wheeling and New Martinsville. That's a combined eight hundred and forty-seven thousand miles, of driving, a day. Or twenty-five million, four hundred and ten thousand miles a month. And three hundred and four million, nine hundred and twenty thousand miles a year. Saved.

Now I completed that project in 1986, that's twenty-two years ago. So over the life of that one bridge, that's six billion, seven hundred and eight million, two hundred and forty thousand miles that haven't had to be driven. At, what, let's say fifty miles an hour? So that's, what, uhhh, a hundred thirty four million, one hundred sixty-five thousand, eight hundred hours. Orrr, five hundred fifty-nine thousand, twenty days. So that one little bridge has saved the people of those communities a combined one thousand five hundred and thirty-one years of their lives, not wasted in a fucking car. 

One thousand five hundred and thirty-one years.

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As you may have guessed, Margin Call is a movie that is absolutely obsessed with numbers. They don’t usually come as fast and thick as they do in this scene. Still, they are pervasive in the movie, both by impact and incantation. You’d be forgiven for thinking that the screenwriter J.C. Chandor has some kind of weird deep-seated number fetish.

But after giving it some thought this weekend, I desperately want to write an extended essay about how numbers are deployed in Margin Call. It was said of the legendary 20th century Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan that “every positive integer was one of his personal friends.” The film has a very different relationship with positive integers than Ramanujan did, but the quote popped to mind as I reflected— the film’s relationship no less intimate. 

I believe the reason this scene has stuck with me for so long is that there is an almost comedic tinge to it: this is a story whose main character is a bridge. There are no people in this story, except the aggregated twelve thousand drivers “of those communities” who use the bridge. Even the people who constructed the bridge are sidelined in the narrative. And yet it’s a story with deep respect for humanity. It’s a story about compassion, about our ability to build a better life for others, about how labor can be elevated above pure productivity to be truly meaningful.

It is a direct refutation of the thesis of the main protagonist, the generally sympathetic (and not pictured) young analyst, who says “Well it’s all just numbers, really, just changing what you’re adding up.”

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It had never occurred to me until writing this post, that I might want to learn to recite that scene in Margin Call by memory, as if it were a poem.

When I was younger I used to memorize so many things. Aside from the routine facts from school and countless songs, there were also dozens if not hundreds of entire pre-meme internet videos that I could quote verbatim. By the time I started writing OTAM, such memorization of random content was no longer a guiding principle of my life. Even classics that I remember fondly like “End of Ze World” and “Ultimate Fight of Ultimate Destiny”, now languish only half-remembered in the pubescent voice of my inner teenager.

But in 2019 I found it in myself to go back and learn one of my favorites, a piece of internet history that is known if not famous, which has always meant more to me than it has to the world: Tanya Davis’s “How to be Alone.”

(The linked youtube video is Davis’s own performance, with lovely editing by Andrea Dorfman. At the time of this writing, it has nine million, six hundred eighty-eight thousand, one hundred twenty-eight views.)

The story of why I chose to do that is a little too personal to share here, the wounds a little too deep*. But I performed it at a small talent show during a summer program. I took the almost-decade of hearing and giving and studying math talks (and the year spent in endless depressive YouTube stupor) and made myself a slam poet, for just a moment.

I’ve never performed it for anyone else, and I might never again. But, I have indeed performed it— oh yes, I have, in the last three years. That poem has been stitched into my heart, with a needle and thread.

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( * I cry a bit as I write these words, weeping for lost naïveté. When I wrote my thousandth post for this blog, I wanted nothing more than to be seen, known, understood. In the five long years since then, I’ve learned many harsh lessons about the virtues of an inner life. )

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Today is the five-year anniversary of the official ending date of One Thousand Adventures in Mathematics.

(No, I didn’t accidentally post this to the wrong blog. I meant to write all that stuff up there XD)

I’m sure it will not surprise you to learn that a lot has happened. I am a very different person than I was when I was writing OTAM. But not everything has changed; I am still an academic mathematician. And since you probably followed me for math and not film critique, here’s a brief update on the big CV bullet points.

As I mentioned in the last post about a year ago, I received my PhD in combinatorics and accepted a postdoc at Charles University in Prague. There, I attempted to learn number theory, and I would not describe that attempt as a success. As a result, I chose to leave the postdoc early and return to the US. 

Fortunately, I was already planning on flying to Denver to attend my second Graduate Research Workshop in Combinatorics, where I applied for and received an adjunct position at Champlain College in Vermont. We’re now over four weeks into the semester.

I’ve now had three poster presentations accepted at the Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics [the third one isn’t public yet :/] . I’ve given about 1.5 of them. (Shoutout to Nathan Williams for doing the heavy lifting on the Strange Expectations poster :D) Shortly before I graduated, I published the first half of my thesis as one paper. Because of the nature of my work in Prague, this is still my only serious publication. There are things in the works— in no small part due to the GRWC this summer— but I am frankly a bit annoyed that I couldn’t get more done last year.

If you’re reading this post, you probably have seen some other posts on this blog. You may even be responsible for one of the small handful of notes that I still receive weekly on my now-quite-old posts. I have already said thank you several times, but I am going to say it again. Thank you.

Finally, this won’t be the last post on this blog. I plan to keep making occasional updates on my professional activities as long as I remain in academia. This is really important to me, because a lot of the value of OTAM was always in seeing someone grow mathematically during a pivotal moment of their education. I feel it would be dishonest if I didn’t say where that all ended up leading. The academic environment is toxic and the job market is hell. I won’t claim my story is representative, and I’ve learned to recognize the taste of privilege. But the only way I can think to say thank you in any meaningful sense is by letting you all see this story to something resembling its completion.

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yall heard about srinivasa ramanujan? greatest mathematician of his era, maybe the greatest mathematical mind ever? i dont think its hyperbole to say we could be living in a different world had he received a formal math education at a young age and lived longer than just 32

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Ramanujan

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Srinivasa Ramanujan, an mathematician, was born in 1887 in the Southern region of India. Ramanujan was born in the quaint village of Erode, nestled approximately 400 kilometers southwest of Madras, now known as Chennai. His journey into the world of mathematics began in his formative years when he was just a year old. His mother relocated to Kumbakonam, a town about 160 kilometers closer to Madras, where his father worked as a clerk in a cloth merchant's shop. However, destiny had other plans for young Ramanujan. In December 1889, he contracted smallpox, which marked the first twist in his remarkable life.

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Let's celebrate National Mathematics Day by diving into the fascinating world of math!

National Mathematics Day is celebrated on December 22nd every year to mark the birth anniversary of the legendary Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan. The Indian government introduced this day in 2012, and it has been celebrated annually since then. The main objective of National Mathematics Day is to raise awareness about the importance of mathematics and to appreciate the life and work of Srinivasa Ramanujan.

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I had a very weird dream.

Last night I dreamt about meeting a man inside of a wooden building, where we talked about loneliness, which resulted in me laying on the floor with him. I either fell asleep or was zoning out hard, cause we stayed like that for (what feels like) hours, then i got up, said something to the man, and leave.

None of this seems that weird. No, the weird part is that when i tried to remember who the man was, and it was srinivasa ramanujan, the guy who, without formal training in mathematics, managed to make substantial contribution in multiple fields, and even solved problems previously considered unsolvable. And i dreamt this the day before a math contest.

Now the guy in the dream looks nothing like ramanujan aside from the fact the guy in the dream was maybe indian. But the guy in the dream just, feels like he should be ramanujan, like how you could tell a chair is a chair by looking at it, it's the same feeling, but with, uhh, vibes?

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Ramanujan: From Zero To Infinity

Ramanujan: From Zero To Infinity, by Arundhati Venkatesh, is the first in the series titled ‘Great Minds at Work’. The book is a comical tale about the childhood of Srinivasa Ramanujan fondly known as Ramanju among his friends. The boy with a unique fascination for mathematical puzzles and equations. This boy later turned out to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. The book…

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National Mathematics Day

National Mathematics Day

We tribute to one of the greatest Mathematicians, Srinivasa Ramanujan on his Birth Anniversary.

"National Mathematics day is also celebrated to raise awareness among people about the importance of mathematics."

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National Mathematics Day 2022: On Srinivasa Ramanujan's birth anniversary, know facts & significance

Image Source : TWITTER/@SAMDASTWEETS Srinivasa Ramanujan National Mathematics Day 2022: India is celebrating National Mathematics Day today to commemorate the 145th birth anniversary of ace mathematician Srinivas Ramanujan who was born on December 22, 1887. In 2012, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared December 22 as National Mathematics Day to honor the life and achievements of Ramanujan. Considered one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, Ramanujan is known for his contributions to number theory and mathematical analysis. Here's all you need to know about the day, and Ramanujan: - Srinivas Ramanujan was born on December 22, 1887, at Erode, Tamil Nadu in a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family. He had developed a liking for mathematics at a very young age. After mastering trigonometry at 12, he was eligible for a scholarship at the Government Arts College in Kumbakonam. - His excellence in Mathematics was recognized after he started working as a clerk in the Madras Port Trust in 1912, then he was referred to Professor GH Hardy of Trinity College, Cambridge University.  - Ramanujan received a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree from Trinity College in 1916. - He was elected to the London Mathematical Society in 1917. Next year, he was elected to the prestigious Royal Society for his research on Elliptic Functions and theory of numbers next year.  - In 1918, he became the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College. In 1919 he returned back to India. - A year later, on April 26, he breathed his last owing to deteriorating health. He was just 32 years old. His biography ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ by Robert Kanigel depicts his life and journey to fame. - Ramanujan his own theorems and independently compiled 3900 results. - In 2012, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared December 22 as National Mathematics Day to honor Srinivas Ramanujan.  - A film of the same name was released in 2015 in which Dev Patel played Ramanujan. The film shed light on Ramanujan’s childhood in India, his career in Britain, and his journey to becoming a great mathematician. Read More Lifestyle News #National #Mathematics #Day #Srinivasa #Ramanujans #birth #anniversary #facts #significance Read the full article

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It's December 22nd, ♾️ National Mathematics Day in India. On this day in 1887, the brilliant mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan was born in Erode, Tamil Nadu. Ramanujan was responsible for advances in number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems until then considered unsolvable. Schools and universities throughout India celebrate his birthday now with math contests, games, demonstrations, and other educational events. In 2017, the day’s significance was enhanced by the opening of the Ramanujan Math Park in Kuppam, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh. 

Ramunajan's genius was obvious from childhood. By the age of 12, he’d mastered trigonometry and developed many of his own theorems. Ramanujan’s peers at the time said they rarely understood him and stood in respectful awe of him, but his ideas were too novel for the leading mathematicians in India to be bothered with. 

In 1913, when Ramanujan was 25, British mathematician G.H. Hardy became enamored with his theorems and got him into Cambridge University. Ramanujan thrived in Britain and was soon elected to be a member of the London Mathematical Society. In 1918, at the age of 30, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society – one of the youngest persons to ever achieve this esteemed position. 

Ramanujan returned to India in 1919 because the food in Britain didn't agree with him. His health continued to deteriorate, and he died in 1920 at the tender age of 32. His achievements in mathematics, however, continue to live on and grow ever larger. His notebooks of unpublished material are a source of new ideas to this day. Of his thousands of theorems, all but a dozen or so have by now been proven correct. A century after his death, researchers are still discovering that mere comments in his writings about "simple properties" and "similar outputs" were themselves profound and subtle number theory results. 

It's no wonder that in 2012, former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh declared Ramanujan’s birthday as National Mathematics Day to be celebrated across the country. ☮️ R.I.P., Younger Brother of Rama… Jamiese of Pixoplanet

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Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. He parts lovingly with his wife and promises to keep up his correspondence with her. Ramanujan is overwhelmed by the opportunity and decides to pursue Hardy’s offer, even though this means he must leave his wife for an extended period.

Hardy soon invites Ramanujan to Cambridge to test his mettle as a potential theoretical mathematician. Ramanujan at this time also marries while performing his menial labor and sending out his first publications. Hardy, a famous mathematician at University of Cambridge, who begins to take a special interest in Ramanujan. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators.

It becomes equally clear to his employers, who are college-educated, that Ramanujan’s mathematical insights exceed the simple accounting tasks they are assigning to him and soon they encourage him to make his personal writings in mathematics available to the general public and to start to contact professors of mathematics at universities by writing to them.

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Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan, an mathematician, was born in 1887 in the Southern region of India. Ramanujan was born in the quaint village of Erode, nestled approximately 400 kilometers southwest of Madras, now known as Chennai. His journey into the world of mathematics began in his formative years when he was just a year old. His mother relocated to Kumbakonam, a town about 160 kilometers closer to Madras, where his father worked as a clerk in a cloth merchant's shop.However, destiny had other plans for young Ramanujan. In December 1889, he contracted smallpox, which marked the first twist in his remarkable life.

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Ramanujan's health worsens while he continues delving into deeper and more profound research interests in mathematics under the guidance of Hardy and others at Cambridge. However, he remains unaware of the personal difficulties his student is having with his housing and with his lack of contact with his family back home in India. Hardy continues to see much more promise in Ramanujan. In the meantime, Ramanujan finds out that he is suffering from tuberculosis and his frequent letters home to his wife remain unanswered after many months.

Hardy remains concerned about Ramanujan's ability to communicate effectively due to his lack of experience in writing proofs, but with perseverance, he manages to get Ramanujan published in a major journal. Upon arrival at Cambridge, Ramanujan encounters various forms of racial prejudice and finds his adjustment to life in England more difficult than expected, though Hardy is much impressed by Ramanujan's abilities. He parts lovingly with his wife and promises to keep up his correspondence with her. Ramanujan is overwhelmed by the opportunity and decides to pursue Hardy's offer, even though this means he must leave his wife for an extended period. Hardy soon invites Ramanujan to Cambridge to test his mettle as a potential theoretical mathematician. Ramanujan at this time also marries while performing his menial labor and sending out his first publications. Hardy, a famous mathematician at University of Cambridge, who begins to take a special interest in Ramanujan. It becomes equally clear to his employers, who are college-educated, that Ramanujan's mathematical insights exceed the simple accounting tasks they are assigning to him and soon they encourage him to make his personal writings in mathematics available to the general public and to start to contact professors of mathematics at universities by writing to them. While performing his menial labor, his employers notice that he seems to have exceptional skills in mathematics and they begin to make use of him for rudimentary accounting tasks. At the turn of the twentieth century, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a struggling and indigent citizen in the city of Madras in India working at menial jobs at the edge of poverty.