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Re:How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to Univ... by shogunmike on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:50AM (#11267714)
One famous, although admittedly not particularly recent, example of a mathematical autodidact is Srinivasa Ramanujan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan).
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Re:How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to Univ... by melling on Friday March 11, 2016 @12:08PM (#11267842)
How does bringing a genius into the conversation in anyway answer the question?

Hopefully, they do a good story with the most recent movie on Ramanujan's life:

http://deadline.com/2015/09/the-man-who-knew-infinity-exclus...

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