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pingohits | 1 year ago

What's hacky about Ramanujan?

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__lbracket__|1 year ago

So we dont know anything about his math/theorem generation process. By his own admission he saw visions of math/theorem god, which is a BS claim since god doesn't exist. So "god whispered theorems in my sleep" is just a proxy for "I coped it from someone". Many of his so called theorems are false (by Hardy's own admission). Lot of progress in math depends on the "process", not just the end result. But he shares nothing about the process.

troq13|1 year ago

"we don't know anything about his math generation process" My man just look at the notebooks. He did not use formal proofs but he was very organized and most of his equations had quite a logical buildup from equations that he wrote before. And even the ones that came out of nowhere are obviously worthy discoveries.

lupusreal|1 year ago

> By his own admission he saw visions of math/theorem god, which is a BS claim since god doesn't exist

Shit reasoning like this from atheists like you is why I cringe to admit I'm an atheist when people ask me about my religious beliefs. It is entirely conceivable that he saw visions of math, produced by his own subconscious, and attributed these visions to a god. It would not be terribly dissimilar from any artist who attributes their creative visions to a muse. Do you accuse any such artist of plagiarism too?

DiggyJohnson|1 year ago

You seem so sure of yourself. How did you end up like that?

> ... is just proxy for "I coped it from someone".

How can you be so confident in this claim?