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Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House
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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (886)5/26/1998 12:06:00 AM
From: Rational   of 12475
 
Mohan and all:

Let me point out the genius Ramanujam who basically wrote math equations (which are theorems) after deducing them on a slate. All his works preserved in Cambridge have his hand-written "results" which most mathematicians believed to be either false (because they were quite weird looking integrals, etc.) or incomprehensible. Now, math departments are producing doctoral theses by simply proving the results that Ramanujam slated to be truth. I have seen volumes produced by Springer & Verlag on Ramanujam's work (which have a lot of applications in supercomputing), containing the results he once transcribed from his slates into hand written notes and the proofs leading to those results obtained by fresh math Ph.D.'s. The famous mathematicians who are compiling Ramanujam's work have not completed the task in 3 volumes. They have commented how many such Ramanujams may be wandering in Indian villages!

What does an ordinary Western visitor to Ramanujam's home see? A home with no indoor plumbing in which an unkempt, ugly-looking, blackish guy is writing gibberish endlessly on a slate. The visitor wonders, "is this Indian intelligence?" He comes to the rich Western world to proclaim with his infinite experience in Indian villages that these Indian villagers are really dumb and that it is laughable that such an India will be a power. One can only laugh at these visitors because they simply do not have the intelligence to fathom the wisdom of Indian villagers.

Rational
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