“While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing.”
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician known for his contributions to number theory, infinite series, and the continuum hypothesis. He was born on December 22, 1887, and died on April 26, 1920. Ramanujan's talent and creativity in mathematics made him one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. more
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