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Ramanujan

· 22 min · Episode 236

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Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 in Erode, India, and produced mathematics so original that it baffled experts across continents. Working largely in isolation, with little formal training, he filled notebooks with formulas that would later transform number theory and modern mathematics. This episode traces Ramanujan's journey from poverty in southern India to collaboration with G. H. Hardy at Cambridge, and asks how a mind so far outside the system reshaped it forever.
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