
"Math Dreams or Revelations from a Goddess?" Topic
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Editor in Chief Bill  | 30 Dec 2012 12:27 p.m. PST |
While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved. Now 100 years later, researchers say they've proved he was right. Read more: link |
etotheipi  | 30 Dec 2012 1:51 p.m. PST |
Maybe not Namagiri
Meditation Hymn of Kali She is dark as a black rock, wearing a jeweled crown. The sign of a third eye is on her forehead, She, the Goddess with three eyes. Like lotus petals, Her eyes are large, They shine like two bright jewels. Her glance showers compassion. Three locks of matted hair adorn her. Her face radiates contentment and, She is gowned with much splendor. Her raised left hand holds a sword, a human head in the lower one. Her right hands grant sanctuary and boons to all. Her tongue shows between her lips, the garland of skulls hanging to her feet Bejeweled, of heavenly form, there is no skirt of human arms. She stands on a lotus base, Her right foot on the chest of Shiva sprawled at Her feet. Her other foot is on his right thigh. She grants freedom from fear. She the Goddess, is the expression of the ultimate Brahman. Meditate on Adya, the infinite, She who embodies the extreme beauty in form.
also a lot of people have known a lot about the behaviour of theta functions and modular forms without being able to prove it. They form the core of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorum – they describe the path of the proof, even though it wasn't until twenty years or so ago that anyone could trace all the footfalls on that path. Stuff like the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture was "known" to be true and used to develop new fields of mathematics for fifty years before it was proven. Still, it is very cool to have all these nailed down in a formal way. |
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