Re:Mathematicians Team Up on Twin Primes Conjecture
by atmosx on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @08:10AM
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Being barely within academia today means having access to all the papers released along with many blog posts by PhD's who analyze the results and repercussions of a paper or a discovery.
The only example of out-of-academia, in the real sense, was Ramanujan[1] who was a sort of pure genius out of nowhere and was able to pull out formulas like this [2]. He wasn't constrict by the rigorous need for proof that Europeans were looking in order to accept any discovery for being true.
De Sautoy[3] states that Ramanujan non-formal (western-style) education kept him away from European mathematical achievements and but also away from European fears of inability to attack specific problems (i.e. like Riemann's Hypothesis for example[4]) and that was a good thing.
The only example of out-of-academia, in the real sense, was Ramanujan[1] who was a sort of pure genius out of nowhere and was able to pull out formulas like this [2]. He wasn't constrict by the rigorous need for proof that Europeans were looking in order to accept any discovery for being true.
De Sautoy[3] states that Ramanujan non-formal (western-style) education kept him away from European mathematical achievements and but also away from European fears of inability to attack specific problems (i.e. like Riemann's Hypothesis for example[4]) and that was a good thing.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan [2] http://bit.ly/1dh0E5w (Google image) [3] http://plus.maths.org/content/music-primes [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis