{"id":23561,"date":"2024-09-24T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=23561"},"modified":"2024-09-24T10:15:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:15:59","slug":"the-first-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/24\/the-first-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar<\/strong><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#cite_note-4\">[a]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;(22 December 1887&nbsp;\u2013 26 April 1920) was an Indian&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mathematician\">mathematician<\/a>. Though he had almost no formal training in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pure_mathematics\">pure mathematics<\/a>, he made substantial contributions to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mathematical_analysis\">mathematical analysis<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Number_theory\">number theory<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Infinite_series\">infinite series<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Continued_fraction\">continued fractions<\/a>, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Often regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hans_Eysenck\">Hans Eysenck<\/a>, &#8220;he tried to interest the leading professional mathematicians in his work, but failed for the most part. What he had to show them was too novel, too unfamiliar, and additionally presented in unusual ways; they could not be bothered&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#cite_note-5\">[4]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Seeking mathematicians who could better understand his work, in 1913 he began a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mail\">mail<\/a>\u00a0correspondence with the English mathematician\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G._H._Hardy\">G. H. Hardy<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Cambridge\">University of Cambridge<\/a>, England. Recognising Ramanujan&#8217;s work as extraordinary, Hardy arranged for him to travel to Cambridge. In his notes, Hardy commented that Ramanujan had produced groundbreaking new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theorem\">theorems<\/a>, including some that &#8220;defeated me completely; I had never seen anything in the least like them before&#8221;,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#cite_note-6\">[5]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and some recently proven but highly advanced results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was gping to wtiye a lryyrr to you Sephine <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I ran ot of green ink <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please accept this as a substitute <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are not my studies <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But those of others <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar[a]&nbsp;(22 December 1887&nbsp;\u2013 26 April 1920) was an Indian&nbsp;mathematician. Though he had almost no formal training in&nbsp;pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to&nbsp;mathematical analysis,&nbsp;number theory,&nbsp;infinite series, and&nbsp;continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable. Often regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23562,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23561\/revisions\/23562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}