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February 8, 2017 07:39 am PST
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The story of Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan
In 1913, English mathematician G.H. Hardy received a package from an unknown accounting clerk in India, with nine pages of mathematical results that he found "scarcely possible to believe." In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast, we'll follow the unlikely friendship that sprang up between Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, whom Hardy called "the most romantic figure in the recent history of mathematics."
We'll also probe Carson McCullers' heart and puzzle over a well-proportioned amputee.
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